Bariana Lab

Manpreet Bariana, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Member, HMH- Center for Discovery and Innovation
Assistant Professor, Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine

Dr. Bariana is a Research Assistant Member at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation and an Assistant Professor at Hackensack School of Medicine in Nutley, New Jersey. Trained in nanotechnology and biomedical engineering at Amity University (India) and the University of Adelaide (Australia), Her work spans nanomedicine, immunobioengineering, and translational cancer biology. Her early work focused on nanoengineered titania nanotube implants for controlled, on-demand drug delivery, contributing to emerging approaches for craniosynostosis management.

At HMH-CDI, Dr. Bariana’s research centers on developing next-generation, molecularly targeted therapies for hematologic malignancies by integrating nanomaterial-based drug delivery with T cell–based immunotherapies. This includes engineering CAR T and TCR platforms, thymic development and fitness of tumor antigen–specific T cells, identifying non-conventional targets such as B cell maturation antigen (BCMA) in acute myeloid leukemia and exploiting conserved lipid and carbohydrate signatures as alternate targets. Dr. Bariana also leads efforts to design gold nanoframework–based delivery systems that enable combined targeted therapeutic delivery and photomodulation for lymphoma, multiple myeloma and AML.