Dipti Deshpande
Dipti is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Northeastern university. She completed her BS in pharmacy from MET, Mumbai and graduated with an MS in Pharmaceutical Science from Northeastern University. She has worked as a Senior Research Associate at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Her current project explores the multimodal effects of estradiol in omega-3-fatty acid containing oil-in-water nanoemulsion system in targeting the endothelial dysfunction in coronary artery diseases. Linkedin
Shardool Jain
Shardool is a doctoral candidate in Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Northeastern University. The title of his thesis project is “Macrophage-Targeted Alginate-Based Non-Viral Gene Delivery System for Local and Systemic Anti-Inflammatory Gene Therapy for Treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis”. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University and has worked for Roche Diagnostics in New Jersey and Cerulean Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in Cambdrige, MA. Linkedin
Jing Xu
Jing is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Northeastern University. She started her doctoral thesis titled “Multimodal Therapeutic Strategy for Pancreatic Cancer: EGFR-Targeted Gelatin-Based Nanoparticles for Combination Wild-type p53 Gene and Cytotoxic Drug Delivery” from January 2009. She has finished her BS in Biological Sciences from Nanjing University, China and was at the University of Gerogia in Athens before coming to Northeastern. Linkedin
Lipa Shah
Lipa is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She graduated from Northeastern University with an MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2006 and UICT Mumbai with a BPharm in 2002. She is currently a Senior Scientist with Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and has been with Novartis for over 5 years where she has supported early development for various NCEs. The current PhD work at Northeastern is focused on enhancing CNS delivery of compounds. This involves building an in vitro model to closely mimic the blood-brain barrier and a formulation that will be able to overcome the efflux mechanism to provide improved permeability. Linkedin
Sunita Yadav
Sunita is currently pursing doctoral degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Northeastern University. Her research is focused on intranasal delivery of peptides to brain. She received her MS degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2007 from Northeastern University. She worked at Boston Scientific Corporation on various medical devices, such as drug-eluting stents and controlled drug eluting polymer films. Since the last four years, she has been working as a Scientist with Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research. Her research experience includes formulation and analytical assay development for siRNA therapeutics. Linkedin
Verbena Kosovrasti
Verbena completed her undergraduate studies majoring in Chemistry and her Masters degree in Food Technology at the State University of Tirana, Albania. She joined Alnylam Pharmaceuticals as an Associate Research Scientist in 2006 and is currently working as a principle research associate. She also participated in the MS program at Worcester State University, but eventually enrolled for her PhD degree at Northeastern University. Her project at Northeastern University involves development of nanoparticle-based delivery strategy for siRNA using modified and /or conjugated dextran blocks.
Aziza Jamal-Allial
She completed her BS in Biology from Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia and graduated with MS in Nutritional Science from University of Missouri. Her primary interest is integrating the science behind Nutritional Biochemistry, Epidemiology and Pharmaceutical science. The focus of her thesis is to understand the longitudinal associations between vitamin D deficiency and cardiovascular disease risk factor as well as developing a nanoemulsion formulation for calcitriol to study its efficacy and efficiency as well as understanding its role in atherosclerosis development. Linkedin
Ruchi Shah
Ruchi completed her Bachelor of Pharmacy from L.M.College of Pharmacy. She finished her M.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Northeastern University. She worked as a Research Intern at the Formulation Department of Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics for a year. Ruchi is currently a Ph.D. candidate working with a Novartis Vaccines fellowship at Northeastern University. The title of her thesis is “Evaluation and Optimization of Novel Self-Emulsifying Adjuvant Formulations to Engender a Potent Immune Response with Model Antigens”. Linkedin
Husain Attarwala
He obtained his MS in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Northeastern University (2010) and a BS in Pharmacy from Rajiv Gandhi University, India (2007). He is also currently working as a Research Associate at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals where his research is focused on PK profiling of siRNA candidates under pre-clinical and clinical development. He has previously worked at Life Technologies, Fredrick, MD and Abbott Bioresearch Center, Worcester, MA. His doctoral thesis research project focuses on development of multicompartmental systems for oral siRNA mediated silencing of transglutaminase-2 for treatment of celiac disease. Linkedin