Ross VerHeul

Current Research Interests:

-Prof. David Thompson's Lab in the Department of Chemistry

-My current primary research interests are developing novel carriers for gene/drug delivery, designing new formulation methods to rationally control nanoparticle properties, and exploring alternative strategies to facilitate protein crystallization success.

-For more information, visit my personal website: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rverheul/index.html

Selected Publications:

Aditya Kulkarni, Vivek Badwaik, Kyle DeFrees, Ryan A. Schuldt, Dinara S. Gunasekera, Cory Powers, Alexander Vlahu, Ross VerHeul, & David H. Thompson. Effect of Pendant Group on pDNA Delivery by Cationic-ß-Cyclodextrin:Alkyl-PVA-PEG Pendant Polymer Complexes & David H. Thompson. Microfluidic Assembly of Cationic-ß-Cyclodextrin:Hyaluronic Acid-Adamantane Host:Guest pDNA Nanoparticles. Biomacromolecules (2013). DOI: 10.1021/BM401096V Aditya Kulkarni, Ross VerHeul, Kyle DeFrees, Christopher J. Collins, Ryan A. Schuldt, Alexander Vlahu & David H. Thompson. Microfluidic Assembly of Cationic-ß-Cyclodextrin:Hyaluronic Acid-Adamantane Host:Guest pDNA Nanoparticles. Biomaterials Science 1, 1029-1033 (2013). DOI: 10.1039/C3BM00189J Aditya Kulkarni, Kyle DeFrees, Ryan A. Schuldt, Seok-Hee Hyun, Kyle J. Wright, Charu K. Yerneni, Ross VerHeul, and David H. Thompson. Cationic a-Cyclodextrin:Poly(ethylene glycol) Polyrotaxanes for siRNA Delivery. Molecular Pharmaceutics 10, 1299-1305 (2013). DOI: 10.1021/MP300449T Aditya Kulkarni, Kyle DeFrees, Ryan A. Schuldt, Alexander Vlahu, Ross VerHeul, Seok-Hee Hyun, Wei Deng, and David H. Thompson. Multi-Armed Cationic Cyclodextrin:Poly(ethylene glycol) Polyrotaxanes as Efficient Gene Silencing Vectors. Integrative Biology, Invited Paper for Special Issue on Cancer Nanotechnology 5, 115-121 (2013). DOI: 10.1039/C2IB20107K Youngil Chang, Jonathan P. Schlebach, Ross A. VerHeul, and Chiwook Park. Simplified Proteomics Approach to Discover Protein-Ligand Interactions. Protein Science 21, 1280–1287 (2012). DOI: 10.1002/pro.2112