B.Sc. University of Mumbai, India M.Sc. (Specialisation :Physiology) University of Mumbai, India Ph.D. University of Mumbai, India PGCHEP University of Bradford, UK

Currently involved in supervising a PhD student researching in the area of toxicology of nanomaterials. I am also interested in the area of wound healing and the effect of pharmacological agents on peristalsis

In Vitro toxicology, wound healing, peristalsis

Effect of Drinking Water Disinfection By-Products in Human Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes and Sperm. Aftab Ali, Malgorzata Kurzawa-Zegota, Mojgan Najafzadeh, Rajendran C Gopalan, Michael J Plewa, Diana Anderson. Mutation Research:Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 08/2014 (Impact factor 4.440)DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2014.08.003) Sensitivity and Specificity of the Empirical Lymphocyte Genome Sensitivity (LGS) Assay: Implications for Improving Cancer Diagnostics: Diana Anderson, Mojgan Najafzadeh, Rajendran Gopalan, Nader Ghaderi, Andrew J Scally, Stephen T Britland, Badie K Jacobs, P Dominic Reynolds, Justin Davies, Andrew L Wright, Shariff Al-Ghazal, David Sharpe, Morgan C Denyer . FASEB Journal 07/2014 (Impact factor 5.480) FASEB J fj.14-254748; published ahead of print July 25, 2014, doi:10.1096/fj.14-254748 In vitro sensitivities to UVA of lymphocytes from patients with colon and melanoma cancers and precancerous states in the micronucleus and the Comet assays Mojgan Najafzadeh, Adolf Baumgartner, Rajendran Gopalan, Justin B Davies, Andrew Wright, P Dominic Reynolds, Diana Anderson Mutagenesis 12/2011; DOI: 10.1093/mutage/ger087 Effects of the anti-malarial compound cryptolepine and its analogues in human lymphocytes and sperm in the Comet assay Rajendran C Gopalan, Esra Emerce, Colin W Wright, Bensu Karahalil, Ali E Karakaya,Diana Anderson Toxicology letters 09/2011; DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2011.09.010 "The effect of zinc oxide and titanium dioxide nanoparticles in the Comet assay with UVA photoactivation of human sperm and lymphocytes" Rajendran C. Gopalan; Ilham F. Osman; Amir Amani; Marcel De Matas; Diana Anderson Nanotoxicology, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2009 , pages 33 - 39 . Techniques for cryopreservation of intestinal smooth muscle cells. Samira Lobo, Morgan Denyer, Rajendran C Gopalan and Farida javid. Cryobiology 57(2008): 186 -189. Patent: UV sensitivity Assay, UK patent No. 0621272.4, 2007. Morgan Denyer, Stephen Britland, David Sharpe, Diana Anderson, Rajendran C Gopalan and University of Bradford. Effects of Sex Hormones and their modulators on DNA damage in skin cells measured in the Comet assay. Rajendran C Gopalan, Louisa D Nelson, Julie M Thornton, Diana Anderson (2006). The Journal of Preventive Medicine; 14(1-2): 14-31.