Prashant N. Kumta

Carnegie Mellon
4309 Wean Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
phone: 412-268-8739
email: kumta@cmu.edu

(1984) B.Tech. (Honors) Metallurgical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

(1987) M.S. Materials Science and Engineering

Prashant N. Kumta
Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Biomedical and Health Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

Research Interests
Prashant joined the CMU's Bone Tissue Engineering Initiative started by Lee Weiss in 1997. He was one of the key members involved in this initiative that has now evolved into the Bone Tissue Engineering Center. Prashant's current research interests include sol-gel, colloidal, and mechanochemical synthesis, structure, microstructure, and structure-property correlation of biodegradable polymer-ceramic composite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. He is also currently developing a biomaterials course for materials science and biomedical and health engineering students. He has more than 180 publications and presentations on ceramic materials. He has edited four books, and has one U.S. patent.

Sample Publications
   J.W. Calvert, K.G. Marra, L.E. Weiss, L.A.Cook, P.N. Kumta, P.A. DiMilla, Characterization of Osteoblast-like Behavior of Cultured Bone Marrow Stromal Cells on Various Polymer Surfaces, J. Biomed. Mat. Res. 52 (2000), 279-284.
    K.G. Marra, J.W. Szem, P.N. Kumta, P.A. DiMilla, L.E. Weiss, In Vitro Analysis of Biodegradable Polymer Blend/Hydroxyapatite Composite Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering, J. Biomedical Materials Research 47 (1999) 324-335.
    K.G. Marra, P.G. Campbell, P.A. DiMilla, P.N. Kumta, M.P. Mooney, J.W. Szem, L.E. Weiss, Novel Three Dimensional Biodegradable Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Biomedical Materials: Drug Delivery, Implants and Tissue Engineering, Ed. T. Neenan, M. Marcolongo, R.F. Valentini, 1999, Vol. 550, 155-160.