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Tanzeel Rehman

     Peer Review Group Facilitator, Interdisciplinary Writing Consultant

     Office: 2200 Osborn

     Email: turehman@iastate.edu

Education

PhD Student, Material Science & Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

M.Sc Biomedical Engineering & Bioinformatics, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey 

B.E in Materials Engineering, National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Research Areas

Targeted drug delivery for cancer treatment; Surface modification of Nano-sized drug delivery vehicles to improve targetability, delivery, and efficacy of the chemotherapeutic drug; Reduction in side effects of chemotherapeutic drugs. 

Patent

“Inclusion complexes suitable for use as a histotripsy agent.” Inventors: Yasemin Yuksel Durmaz, Tanzeel Ur Rehman. Filing date: March 18, 2019, International application number: PCT/TR2019/050171; Document number: 2018-GE-120207. File Number: 2018/03803  

Publications

Rehman, T.U., Bratlie, K. Arginine modification of liposomal surface to target cancer associated fibroblasts. (under review) 

Rehman, T. U., Khirallah, J., Demirel, E., Howell, J., Vlaisavljevich, E., & Yuksel Durmaz, Y. (2019). Development of acoustically active nanocones using the host–guest interaction as a new histotripsy agent. ACS omega, 4(2), 4176-4184  

Khirallah, J., Schmieley, R., Demirel, E., Rehman, T. U., Howell, J., Durmaz, Y. Y., & Vlaisavljevich, E. (2019). Nanoparticle-mediated histotripsy (NMH) using perfluorohexane ‘nanocones’. Physics in Medicine & Biology, 64(12), 125018  

Select Conference Presentations

“ Nanocones: a new histotripsy agent” Tanzeel Ur Rehman, 6th annual GPSRC 2019, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 

“Using Drag Reducing Polymer Instead of Blood and Blood Supplies during Hemorrhagic Shock.” Gulden Akcay, Tanzeel Ur Rehman, Alper Savas, Yasemin Yuksel Durmaz, Ece Salihoglu, International Euroasian Conference on Biological and Chemical Sciences. April 26th – 27th, 2018. Ankara, Turkey  

"Development of a Histotripsy Agent using Host-Guest Interaction.” Tanzeel Ur Rehman, Yasemin Yuksel Durmaz. Society for Biomaterials, Annual Conference 2018, April 11th – 14th, 2018. Atlanta GA  

“Nanoparticle-Mediated Histotripsy for Targeted Cancer Cell Ablation.” Jennifer Khirallah, Tanzeel Ur Rehman, Justin Howell, Yasemin Yuksel Durmaz, Eli Vlaisavljevich. Atlantic Coast Conference meeting of the minds. April 6th – 8th, 2018. Boston MA  

“Effects of Solvents in Fabrication Methods of PLGA-based Ultrasound Contrast Agents:A Comparative Analysis” Tanzeel Ur Rehman, Nihan Yonet-Tanyeri. Society for Biomaterials, Annual Conf. 2017,5th -8th April,2017. Minneapolis, MN