Education:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering major, Chemistry minor
B.S., 2018
North Carolina State University
Biomedical and Health Sciences Engineering major
B.S., 2018
University of Minnesota
Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program
Ph.D., 2025
Honors and awards:
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award for Predoctoral MD/PhD Fellows, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 2024-2027
MSTP Student Governance:
- Student Advisory Committee, 2021-2023
- Student Admissions and Recruitment Committee, 2023-2025
- JEDI Committee, 2022-2024
Thesis Advisor: Michael Garwood, Ph.D.
Thesis Research
MRI-based protocol for imaging iron-oxide nanoparticles for cryopreservation of tissues for organ transplant.
Publications (pubmed)
Gangwar L, Han Z, Scheithauer C, Namsrai BE, Kantesaria S, Goldstein R, Etheridge ML, Finger EB, Bischof JC. Physical vitrification and nanowarming at liter-scale CPA volumes: toward organ cryopreservation. Nat Commun. 2025 Sep 26;16(1):8511. PMCID: PMC12474906
Oziri OJ, Rao JS, Scheithauer C, Han Z, Kantesaria S, Tobolt D, Liang H, Etheridge ML, Yin Y, Finger EB, Bischof JC. Scalable Purification of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Organ Cryopreservation and Transplantation. Small. 2025 Sep 24:e04910. doi: 10.1002/smll.202504910. Online ahead of print.
Gangwar L, Han Z, Scheithauer C, Namsrai BE, Kantesaria S, Goldstein R, Etheridge ML, Finger EB, Bischof JC. Physical vitrification and nanowarming at human organ scale to enable cryopreservation. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Nov 11:2024.11.08.622572. Update in: Nat Commun. 2025 Sep 26;16(1):8511. PMCID: PMC11601234
Kantesaria S, Tang X, Suddarth S, Pasek-Allen J, Namsrai BE, Goswitz A, Hintz M, Bischof J, Garwood M. A Low-Cost, Tabletop LOD-EPR System for Nondestructive Quantification of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles in Tissues. ACS Sens. 2024 Jan 26;9(1):262-271. PMCID: PMC12145166
Torres E, Wang P, Kantesaria S, Jenkins P, DelaBarre L, Cosmo Pizetta D, Froelich T, Steyn L, Tannús A, Papas KK, Sakellariou D, Garwood M. Development of a compact NMR system to measure pO2 in a tissue-engineered graft. J Magn Reson. 2023 Dec;357:107578. PMCID: PMC10787953
Pasek-Allen JL, Kantesaria S, Gangwar L, Shao Q, Gao Z, Idiyatullin D, Han Z, Etheridge ML, Garwood M, Jagadeesan BD, Bischof JC. Injectable and Repeatable Inductive Heating of Iron Oxide Nanoparticle-Enhanced "PHIL" Embolic toward Tumor Treatment. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2022 Sep 21;14(37):41659-41670.
Tang X, Suddarth S, Kantesaria S, Garwood M. J Magn Reson. A frequency-swept, longitudinal detection EPR system for measuring short electron spin relaxation times at ultra-low fields. 2022 Sep;342:107279.
Work prior to the UMN MSTP:
DiSalvo M, Harris DM, Kantesaria S, Peña AN, Allbritton-King JD, Cole JH, Allbritton NL. Characterization of Tensioned PDMS Membranes for Imaging Cytometry on Microraft Arrays. Anal Chem. 2018 Apr 3;90(7):4792-4800. PMCID: PMC5912951
