On the CUSP: August 2024

Awards and Recognitions

• Dr. Amy Kang has been appointed to the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Infectious Diseases Pharmacy Specialty Council. In this role, she will be involved in providing recommendations on national board certification and recertification standards, as well as developing examination content.

• Dr. Keykavous Parang has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) for a five-year term beginning January 1, 2025, and ending December 31, 2029.

• Dr. Sherry Wang was invited to serve as a panelist at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Center for Innovation & Value Research (Previously known as Innovation and Value Initiative [IVI]) during a session titled: AI-Powered health technology assessment: Optimizing Healthcare Decisions and Improving Patient Outcomes.

Publications 

• Dr. Rennolds Ostrom and Dr. Isabella Cattani-Cavalieri published “One More Negative Regulator of AC6: S-Nitrosylation.” in the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology.

• Dr. Keykavous Parang, alumna Dr. Saghar Mozaffari, and others published “Synthesis and biological evaluation of bicyclic peptides containing arginine and tryptophan residues.” in Chemical Biology Letters.

• Dr. Keykavous Parang and three alumni, Mrigank Shekhar Rai, Dr. Muhammad Imran Sajid, and Dr. Jonathan Moreno,  published “Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Oleyl-WRH Peptides for siRNA Delivery.” in Pharmaceuticals with others.

Presentations

• Oral (e.g., Platform Presentations, Symposiums, Plenaries, Keynotes)

  • Dr. Jeff Goad presented “Preparing patients for international travel” at the California Immunization Coalition webinar on August 6, 2024 with a collaborator.
  • Dr. Keykavous Parang presented “Cyclic Peptide-Doxorubicin Conjugates to Overcome Multi-Drug Resistance and Reduce Toxicity” at the University of Nebraska Medical Center on August 16, 2024.
  • Dr. Miao Zhang presented “Cryo-EM structures of the small-conductance calcium-activated potassium channel” at the Sophion Bioscience User Meeting on August 22nd, 2024.

This article was written by Silas Fernandes.