Seminars

September

Sept. 1: "Ondansetron and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Deaths Among People Receiving Hemodialysis"

Sherin E. Ismail Atta, Pharm.D., Ph.D., MPH-epi, BCPS, BCACP, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy, UHCOP

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Tues., Sept. 1, Health 2, Room 3082

Sept. 2: "AKAP12 Recruits PDE8A to Impair Cardiac Function in Heart Failure"

Ying Xu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UHCOP (Mentor: Bradley McConnell)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Sept. 2, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Sept. 9: "Decoding Mitochondria-Autophagy Crosstalk in Human Diseases"

Nami McCarty, Ph.D., Professor, Institute of Molecular Medicine-Center for Translational Cancer Research, The Brown Foundation Institute, McGovern Medical School at UT Health Houston (Host: Radbod Darabi)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Sept. 9, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Sept. 15: "Ensuring Continuous Buprenorphine Access for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder: A Quality Improvement Initiative"

Lyn Yuen Choo, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy and The PREMIER Center, UHCOP

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Tues., Sept. 15, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Sept. 16: "Title TBA"

Tetiana Kolodiazhna, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston College of Pharmacy (Mentor: Alexander Statsyuk)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Sept. 16, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Sept. 17: "From Lab to Launch: Inside the Innov8 Hub Journey"

Tanu Chatterji, Ph.D., Innov8 Hub/Technology Bridge; Onyebuchi Ononogbu, Pharm.D., MPH, BCOP, Research Assistant Professor, UHCOP; Alexander Statsyuk, Ph.D., Associate Professor, UHCOP; and Mai Tran, Ph.D., PMP, UH Technology Bridge

12:00-1:00 p.m. Thurs., Sept. 17, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Sept. 22: "Cholinesterase Inhibitors and Risk for Memantine Initiation among U.S. Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: A Target Trial Emulation Study"

Yinan Wang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, UHCOP

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Sept. 23: "Title TBA"

Hongyan Guo, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston College of Pharmacy (Mentor: Mingfu Wu)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Sept. 23, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Sept. 30: “De novo Design of Miniprotein Antagonists”

Tarsis Ferreira, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Office of Vision Science Department, University of Houston College of Optometry (Host: Alexander Statsyuk)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Sept. 30, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

October

Oct. 6: "Using Real World Data to Support Regulatory Decision Making and Benefit Risk for Medicines in Rare Disease: Sickle Cell Case Study"

Carmine Colavecchia, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Global Medical Affairs Senior Director, argenx

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Oct. 7: "Post-transcriptional Control of Cardiac Growth and Function"

Auinash Kalsotra, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (Host: Ravi Singh)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Oct. 7, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Oct. 14: "Engineering Delivery Vehicles and RNA Design to Develop Potent Vaccines and Immunotherapies"

Akash Gupta, Ph.D., Assistant Professor/Presidential Frontier Faculty Fellow, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston (Host: Bradley McConnell)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Oct. 14, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Oct. 15: "Personalized Combination Antimicrobial Therapy"

Vincent H. Tam, Pharm.D., FIDSA, FIDP, FAAM, BCIDP, UHCOP Professor, UH Moores Professor

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Thurs., Oct. 15, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Oct. 21: "From 'Cell' to 'Cells' to 'Organoids': PharmacoAnalytics of CB2 Cryo-EM Structure, Generative AI Drug Design, and Anti-Fibrotic Translation"

Xiang-Qun (Sean) Xie, Ph.D., EMBA, Professor and Director, NIDA Center of Excellence for CDAR, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (Host: Louis Williams)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Oct. 21, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Oct. 28: "Novel Targeted mRNA Lipid Nanoparticle Delivery System for Therapeutic Gene Modulation"

Luona Yang, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston College of Pharmacy (Mentor: Xinli Liu)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Oct. 28, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

November

Nov. 4: "The Emerging Role of Hippo/MST1 Signaling in Neurodegenerative Diseases"

My Nguyen, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston (Mentor: Jiukuan Hao)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Nov. 4, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Nov. 11: "Targeting Surface-Translocated Plectin in Lung Cancer Stem Cells Using Peptoid-Based Therapeutics"

Charles Owusu Ansah, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston College of Pharmacy (Mentor: Gomika Udugamasooriya)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Nov. 11, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Nov. 18: "Nebivolol Impairs Autophagic Flux and Engages Multiple Programmed Cell Death Pathways in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer"

Wangjia Cao, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Houston College of Pharmacy (Mentor: Meghana Trivedi)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Nov. 18, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

December

Dec. 2: "Title TBA"

Yong Wan, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Emory University School of Medicine and the Emory Winship Cancer Institute, Atlanta, GA (Host: Ruiwen Zhang)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Dec. 2, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

Dec. 9: "Novel Regulation of GPCR Signaling in HFrEF and HFpEF"

Yang Kevin Xiang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA (Host: Mingfu Wu)

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Wed., Dec. 9, Health 2, Room 3082, and Zoom

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