Dr Aman Nikhil
Research Overview
• In vitro Models for translational research
• Bioengineering of musculoskeletal tissues
PUBLICATIONS
• Mehrotra, S., Nikhil, A., Gupta, P., Verma, S., & Kumar, A. (2025). Emerging Materials in Medicine. In Technology and Innovation in Medical Sciences: Breakthroughs from Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology, IIT Kanpur (pp. 11-27). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-8606-3_2
• Nikhil, A., et al. (2024). 3D-Printed-Cryogel-Impregnated Functionalized Scaffold Augments Bone Regeneration in Critical Tibia Fracture in Goat. Advanced Healthcare Materials,13(32), 2402619. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202402619
• Nikhil, A., et al. (2024). Multi-layered cryogel enriched with exosomes regenerates and maintains cartilage architecture and phenotype in goat osteochondral injuries. ACS Applied materials and Interfaces, 16(47), 64505-64521.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c13808
• Nikhil, A., Qayoom I., Das, A., Ashok Kumar (2024). Preventing septic implant failures in osteoporotic hip fractures using antibiotic-loaded functionalized nanocement. Chemical engineering journal, 486, 149908.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2024.149908
• Nikhil, A., & Kumar, A. (2024). Recent advances in characterization techniques for bone substitutes (Book Title: Emerging Materials and Technologies for Bone Repair and Regeneration, Taylor & Francis Group).
https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003307310-8
• Das, A., Nikhil, A., Shiekh, P. A., Yadav, B., Jagavelu, K., & Kumar, A. (2024). Ameliorating impaired cardiac function
in myocardial infarction using exosome-loaded gallic-acid-containing polyurethane scaffolds. Bioactive Materials, 33,
324-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioactmat.2023.11.009
• Das, A., Nikhil, A., & Kumar, A. (2024). Antioxidant and Trilayered Electrospun Small-Diameter Vascular Grafts Maintain
Patency and Promote Endothelialisation in Rat Femoral Artery. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.4c00006
• Das, A., Nikhil, A., Yadav, B., Jagavelu, K., & Kumar, A. (2024). Thermoresponsive polymer encapsulated HT1080
exosomes lyse localized blood clot: A preclinical evaluation in rat carotid artery thrombosis model. Journal of Drug
Delivery Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jddst.2024.105828
• Nikhil, A., & Kumar, A. (2022). Evaluating potential of tissueâengineered cryogels and chondrocyte derived exosomes in
articular cartilage repair. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 119(2), 605-625. https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.27982
(Top cited article of Journal from Jan 2022 to December 2023)
• Das, A., Nikhil, A., & Kumar, A. (2022). Preparation of thermo-responsive polymer encapsulated exosomes and its role as a therapeutic agent for blood clot lysis. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 216, 112580.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2022.112580
• Saha, P., Sarkar, A., Sabnam, N., Shirke, M. D., Mahesh, H. B., Nikhil, A., ... & Roy-Barman, S. (2021). Comparative
analysis of secondary metabolite gene clusters in different strains of Magnaporthe oryzae. FEMS Microbiology Letters,
368(1), fnaa216. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnaa216
• Kumar, A., Nikhil, A., et al. (2015). Biochemical and molecular characterization (16s rRNA) of bacteria isolated from soil
sample of Govind Sagar lake, Himachal Pradesh and Baga beach, Goa, India. Research Journal of Pharmaceutical,
Biological and Chemical Sciences, 6(4), 1199-1204.
• Nikhil, A., & Shukla, S. (2013). Production of artificial seeds from nodal region of sweet neem (Murraya Koenigii). J Adv
Pharma Res Biosci, 1(2), 71-74.