College of Pharamacy Faculty Profile

Ph.D. Program Scholarly Activities x Garnered over $6,700,000 in research grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, Department of Defense and other private entities, such as Komen for the Cure and the Children’s Leukemia Association as PI or Co-Investigator x Published 35 scientific papers, reports, book chapters and books x Presented over 100 scientific abstracts, at national and international meetings, such as the American Society for Cell Biology, the American Association for Cancer Research and the Society of Toxicology x Served as a reviewer for journals including Cancer Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Clinical Cancer Research, Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology, the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology x Served as study section chairperson for the Komen for the Cure, the U.S. Department of Defense and the New York State Department of Health, and as reviewer for National x Institutes of Science-National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI), NASA and the American Cancer Society. x Inventor on 2 patents: 2000 Epithelial Cell Cultures for in vitro Testing — U.S. Patent #6,074,874 2002 Methods Related to Primary Epithelial Cultures — U.S. Patent #6,383,805 Research Focus x Loss of DNA repair as causative factor in cancer formation x Breast tissue engineering x Ancestral disparity in breast cancer development and pharmacogenomics x Drug resistance (via cancer stem cells) in childhood leukemia