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Venkata Subba Rao Atluri, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Center of Personalized Nanomedicine
Institute for NeuroImmune Pharmacology
Email: [email protected]
Dr. Atluri received his Ph.D. (Medical Microbiology) from Postgraduate Institute of
Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. Presently, he is a faculty at the
Centre for Personalized Nanomedicine, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology,
Department of Immunology of Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University (FIU),
Miami, Florida, USA. For the first time, Dr. Atluri has reported the dysregulation of synaptic plasticity genes and
spine density in HIV exposed neuronal cells and reported the usefulness of vorinostat as a therapeutic agent to
inhibit the negative regulatory effects on synaptic plasticity in HIV infection. His group has developed magnetic
nanoparticle based drug delivery system to deliver neuroprotective agents, anti-HIV and latency breaking agents
across the blood brain barrier for sustained release. He has also been serving as an Editorial Board member of
Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Virology, AIDS and Behavior, International Journal of Nanomedicine,
Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, HIV/AIDS-Research and Palliative Care etc.; and reviewer of many peerreviewed scientific journals.
Research Interests:
 Identification of neuroprotective agents and Anti-HIV drugs to deliver across the blood-brain barrier (BBB)
using nano-carrier based approaches for the treatment of Neuro-AIDS.
 Exploring the neuropathogenic mechanisms of HIV infection and drugs of abuse (Cocaine, Methamphetamine,
Morphine etc.).
 Studying the epigenetic regulation of synaptic plasticity in HIV infected drug abusers.
 Studying the role of innate immune system especially, inflammasomes activation in the development of NeuroAIDS.
Selected Publication
1. Venkata Subba Rao Atluri, et al., "Development of TIMP1 magnetic nanoformulation for regulation of
synaptic plasticity in HIV-1 infection”. International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2016. In Press.
2. Venkata Subba Rao Atluri, et al., “Effect of Cocaine on HIV infection and Inflammasome Gene Expression
Profile in HIV Infected Macrophages”. Scientific Reports, 2016; 6: 27864. doi: 10.1038/srep27864.
3. Venkata Subba Rao Atluri, et al., “Effect of human immunodeficiency virus on blood-brain barrier integrity
and function: an update”. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2015. 9:212. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00212.
4. Venkata Subba Rao Atluri, et al "Vorinostat positively regulates synaptic plasticity genes expression and
spine density in HIV infected neurons: Role of nicotine in progression of HIV-associated neurocognitive
disorders”. Molecular Brain, 2014; 7:37. doi: 10.1186/1756-6606-7-37.
5. Venkata Subba Rao Atluri, et al " Human Synaptic Plasticity gene expression profile and dendritic spine
density changes in HIV-infected human neuronal cells: Role in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders
(HAND)”. PLoS ONE, 2013; 8(4): e61399. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061399.