College of Pharamacy Faculty Profile

Ph.D. Program Scholarly Activities x Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) with its “Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS)” Council, since November 2011 x American Heart Association (AHA)`s Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship awardee for 3 years (2005-2008) and Scientist Development Grant (SDG) active awardee (AHA National Center) totalling $314,000 x 2006 American Heart Association`s Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Sciences finalist & 2010 Cardiovascular Research Award of the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) finalist x Author of over 28 research peer-reviewed publications in leading biomedical research journals, including a lead-author publication in the prestigious journal “Nature Medicine” in 2007, the highest-rated journal in biomedical research in the world x Chapter author in 3 educational textbooks x Peer reviewer for the American Heart Association`s (AHA) Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS) council x Member of the Editorial Boards of the “American Journal of Cardiovascular Disease” and of the “Journal of Carcinogenesis and Mutagenesis” x Scientific manuscript reviewer for the following journals: “Journal of Biological Chemistry,” “British Journal of Pharmacology”, “Circulation Research”, “Pharmacogenomics”, and “American Journal of Cardiology” x Co-inventor in two provisional patents from Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA and Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Research Focus x Cardiovascular biology/pharmacology and gene therapy, with a focus on adrenergic system regulation in heart failure x Novel roles of G-protein coupled receptor kinases and their co-factors, beta-arrestins, in regulation of various important cardiovascular G-protein coupled receptors are investigated. x Roles of G-protein coupled receptor kinases and their co-factors, beta-arrestins in adrenal gland physiology and biology