Published July 07, 2014
Graduate students in the University of Louisiana at Monroe’s School of Pharmacy and
Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences recently presented their research at two
different meetings, bringing home best poster presentation awards.
The students, all seeking doctoral degrees in pharmacy, received recognition certificates
and travel awards.
A poster by Hisham Qosa, advised by Dr. Amal Kaddoumi, associate professor of basic
pharmaceutical sciences, was highlighted as a distinguished poster by the Neuroscience
section and won a plaque and a travel award.
Qosa presented “Mixed oligomers and monomeric Amyloid-β disrupts blood-brain barrier
integrity and reduces monomeric amyloid-β clearance” at the Fifth Biennial National
Institutes of Health(NIH), National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS),
National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) meeting in Washington,
D.C.
Graduate students advised by Dr. Seetharama Jois, associate professor of basic pharmaceutical
sciences, won best poster awards in the Drug Discovery and Development Colloquium
2014 in Little Rock, Ark. The winning posters were chosen out of nearly 60 entrants.
Sandeep Pallerla won the chemistry first prize; Rushikesh Sable won the chemistry
second prize; and Shanthi Kanthala won the biology third prize.
Pallerla presented “Synthesis of doxorubicin-peptidomimetic conjugate for the specific
delivery of doxorubicin to HER2 overexpressing cancer cells.”
Sable presented “Cyclotides grafted with CD2 epitopes to inhibit CD2-CD58 protein-protein
interaction,” and Kanthala presented “Rationaly designed peptidomimetics for inhibition
of protein-protein interactions of EGFRs.”
