2010-2011 Pharmaceutical Sciences Colloquium
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Colloquium
(2010-2011)
Seminars are held at noon in 90 Snell Library Unless Noted
All are welcome to attend
Coffee, Tea & Cookies will be served
| Date | Inviting Faculty | Speaker | Title |
| 9/09/10 | Dr. Khaw | Vishwesh Patil, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Targeted In Vitro & In Vitro Delivery of Diagnostic & Chemotherapeutic Agents to Prostate Cander Cells Pretargeted with Bispecific Antibody-Ligand Complexes" |
| 09/16/10 | Dr. Makriyannis | Rishi Sharma, Graduate Student, Center for Drug Discovery, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Design, Synthesis and Pharmacological Evaluation of Novel Cannabinergic Analogs with Controlled Detoxification" |
| 09/23/10 | Dr. Ferris | Dr. Eric Moulton, Ph.D., Instructor, P.A.I.N. Group, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA |
"Neuroimaging in the human trigeminal system: experimental pain, migraine, and the cerebellum" |
| 09/30/10 | Dr.Waszczak | Dr. Martin Duennwald, Ph.D., Scientist, Boston Biomedical Research Institute, Watertown, MA |
"Protein Misfolding and Toxicity: New Insights from Yeast" |
| 10/07/10 | Dr. Loring (450 Dodge) | Dr. Paul D. Gardner, Associate Professor of Psychiatry Associate Director, Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, UMMS Center of Excellence in Addiction, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA |
"Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Expression and Function in Brain and Lung" |
| 10/14/10 | Dr. Amiji | Dr. Mansoor Amiji, Chair, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Graduate Student Open House" | 10/21/10 | Dr. Deth | Dr. Gunther Zupanc, Chair, Department of Biology Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"New Cells for Old Brains: Adult Neurogenesis and Neuronal Regeneration in Teleost Fish" |
| 10/28/10 | Dr. Clark | Kevin Cash, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Electrochemical Detection of Proteins in Complex Samples with The E-DNA Platform" |
| 11/04/10 | Dr. Carlo | Giuseppe Intini, DDS, Ph.D., Instructor, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Department of Developmental Biology, Boston, MA |
"Activation of Skeletal Progenitor Stem Cells During Bone Fracture Repair" |
| 11/11/10 | TBA | Veteran's Day, No Classes |
NO PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM |
| 11/18/10 | Dr. Sitkovsky | Darrell J. Irvine, Ph.D., Associate Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
"Therapeutic Cell Engineering Using Synthetic Nanomaterials" |
| 12/02/10 | Dr. Torchilin | Kate Torchilin, Ph.D., MD, CEO Biocell Center Corporation, Medford, MA |
"Amniotic Fluid Stem Cells: Promises and Premises" |
| 12/09/10 | Dr. Clark | Dr. Jeffrey T. Borenstein, Technical Director for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
"Microfluidic Systems for Implantable Drug Delivery Applications" |
| 12/16/10 | Dr. Amiji | Shashi Murthy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Microfluidic Capture of Endothelial Progenitor Cells: Clinical & Basic Science Applications" |
| 01/13/11 | Dr. John Devlin | PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM IS CANCELLED |
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| 01/20/11 | Dr. Khaw | Keyur Gada, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Targeted Delivery of Radiolabeled Polymers or Polymer-Pro-Drug-Conjugates after Pre-Targeting Tumors with Bispecific Antibody Complexes for Diagnosis and Therapy" |
| 01/27/11 | Dr. Paronis | Gary B. Kaplan, M.D., Director, Mental Health Service, Chief of Psychiatry VA Boston Healthcare System, Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA |
"New Pharmacotherapy Approaches for The Extinction of Drug Craving" |
| 02/03/11 | Dr. John Devlin | PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES COLLOQUIUM IS CANCELLED |
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| 02/10/11 | Dr. Torchilin | Dr. Robert Kozma, Dunavant University Professor of Mathematics Director, Center for Large-Scale Integrated Optimization & Networks The University of Memphis, TN and Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate, Hanscom AFB, MA |
"Large-Scale Random Networks: Mathematical Advances and Applications in Brain Sciences and Decision Support" |
| 02/17/11 | Qionglin Zhou | Dr. Zenfeng Duan, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Director, Sarcoma Molecular Biology Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
"Multidrug Resistance in Human Cancer - Current Challenges and Future Directions" |
| 02/24/11 | Dr. Amiji | Lee Makowski, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Modulating The Protein Ensemble: A Strategy for Drug Design?" |
| 03/10/11 | Dr. Torchilin | Tao Wang, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Landscape Phage Fusion Protein Self-Assembled with Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers for Targeted and Cytoplasmic Delivery of Chemotherapeutics to Breast Cancer Cells" |
| 03/17/11 | Dr. Clark (333 Curry Student Center) | Sherrica Tai, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Behavioral Pharmacology of Cannabinoids: Towards an Animal Model for Studying Cannabinoid Dependence/Withdrawal" |
| 03/24/11 | Dr. Torchilin | Claudio Falcao, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Multifunctional Liposomes for Enhanced Anti-Cancer Therapy" |
| 03/31/11 | Dr. Torchilin | Jaydev Upponi, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Nanomaterials for Cancer Imaging and Theranostics" |
| 04/07/11 | Dean Reynolds | Peter M. Gannett, Ph.D., Department Chair School of Pharmacy, Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV |
"Effects of Heteroactivators and P450 Protein-Protein Interactions on CYP2C9 Mediated Metabolism" |
| 04/14/11 | Dr. Torchilin | Ritesh V. Thekkedath, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Lipid-Based Nano-Sized Pharmaceutical Carriers For Cell-Specific and Intracellular Delivery" |
| 04/21/11 | Dr. Torchilin | Onkar Vaze, Graduate Student, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA |
"Lipid Based Systems For Delivery of Drugs and siRNA" |