Lokhandwala Lecture Series
The Lokhandwala Lecture & Convocation series honors University of Houston Professor Emeritus Mustafa F. Lokhandwala, Ph.D., FAHA, FASN.
Known to most as "Musti," Lokhandwala came to UH in 1972 as a graduate student joined the college faculty and administration in 1981. Over the next 46 years, Lokhandwala was elevated to numerous leadership posts within the college – including Department Chair (1980-1991), Dean (1992-2002), Executive Vice-Dean for Research (2003-2019), Joseph P. and Shirly Shipman Buckley Endowed Professor (2018-2022) and Director of the Heart and Kidney Institute (2006-2021) – and in his scientific and professional pursuits, including election as Fellow of American Heart Association and the American Society of Nephrology.
The Lokhandwala Lecture & Research Convocation series is designed as a platform for multidirectional integration of basic, patient-focused, and population-based research by faculty and students to enhance the intellectual experience and their professional and academic development. The series will involve invited lectures by renowned nationally and internationally recognized scientists, along with showcasing the best of UHCOP research to a broader audience.
Lokhandwala’s passion and commitment to the college, its students and scientific knowledge resulted in many achievements in the college’s growth and development, including securing approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for establishing Ph.D. and Pharm.D. programs at the college and increasing research funding from $500,000 in the 1990s to over $11 million in FY2018.
Lokhandwala’s successful research program, which focused on understanding the mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, received continuous support from the National Institutes of Health. His research also has produced more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and reviews, 200-plus abstracts, and more than two dozen books and book chapters.
A member of the college’s Mading Society of benefactors, Lokhandwala has helped create several endowed scholarships at the college, including the Perin Lokhandwala Presidential Endowed Fellowship for Pharm.D./Ph.D. students. In addition, he and his wife, Sanober, funded the first endowed professorship in the Department of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy.
Established in 2021, the annual Lokhandwala Lecture Series not only honors Lokhandwala’s scientific pursuits and achievements, but also celebrates the values of academic excellence that we share as a scientific community.
This is the first college-wide lecture series that involves all three departments at UHCOP – Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacy Practice and Translational Research, and Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy – to encourage broader collaboration and synergy for scientific contributions and therapeutic innovations to improve patient care and outcomes.
To make a gift online, visit UH's secure online giving page, select "College of Pharmacy" and the "Lokhandwala Lecture Series" in the dropdown menu. To make a gift from a mobile device, text "MUSTI" to 71-777.
For more information or other giving options, please contact Marianne Dwyer, Chief Development Officer for Medicine and Health, at mdwyer@uh.edu or 713-743-4137.