Michael Cuccarese

Michael Cuccarese

E-mail: cuccarese.m@neu.edu
Department: Chemistry
Advisor: George O’Doherty

Collaborators: Sri Sridhar, Penny Beuning

Biography

Mike is from Youngstown, Ohio, and received his B.S. in chemistry from The Ohio State University. Now a Ph.D. candidate at Northeastern University, his research bridges synthetic carbohydrate chemistry, nanomedicine and cell biology in his study of the aminoglycoside class of antibiotics.

Projects

• Synthesis of Nanoencapsulated Aminoglycosides as Small-Molecule Gene Therapeutics

Presentations

• Aminoglycoside-Induced Sensitization of Lung Cancer Cell lines H460 and A549, , Meeting of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Apr 2013
• Sensitization of H460 Lung Cancer Cells, Mike Cuccarese, Gordon Conference on Drug Resistance, Easton, MA, Sep 2012
• Advancements in Aminoglycosides (Poster), Mike Cuccarese, Northeastern RISE, Mar 2012
• Synthesis of Phosphatidic Acid Analogues for Competitive Binding With the Receptor AFAP-110 in a Pathway Relevant to Breast and Ovarian Cancer, (Poster), ACS National Meeting, Aug 2010

Publications

• Application of the Wharton Rearrangement for the de novo Synthesis of Pyranosides with ido, manno, and colito Stereochemistry, Michael F. Cuccarese, Hua-Yu Leo Wang, George A. O’Doherty, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, V.in press, P. (0000)