Email
npp@pitt.edu

Phone
412-648-8502

Office
619 Salk Hall
3501 Terrace Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Position
Associate Professor

Department of Oral Biology
School of Dental Medicine

Research Interests

Tissue Engineering of Human Dental Tissues:  Using dental and oral tissues from hu­man samples we plan to identify and isolate stem cells and develop a cell and organ culture model for growing viable and implantable tissues and organs.

Recent Publications

Nair MK, Nair UP, Seyedain A, Gassner R, Piesco N, Mooney M, Ganta S, Agarwal S. Correlation of tuned aperture computed tomography with conventional computed tomography for evaluation of osseous healing in calvarial defects. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 2007 Feb;103(2):267-73. Epub 2006 Aug 2.