On the CUSP: December 2024

Quotables (Faculty in the News)

Dr. Sherry Wang‘s work was featured as a key finding and reference in the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) report titled Recent Trends in Young Adult Mortality on pages 23 and 24.

Publications

• Dr. Ajay Sharma, Dr. Saleh Alfuraih, Dr. Lois Kim, Amy Tran, and others published “Hyperglycemia causes differential change in macrophage population in the lacrimal gland, conjunctiva and cornea“.  
• Dr. Kamaljit Kaur, Dr. Emad Althagafi, Phi-Phung Than, and Shih-Jing Yao published “A Conjugate of an EGFR-Binding Peptide and Doxorubicin Shows Selective Toxicity to Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells” in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 
• Dr. Sun Yang and others published “Mitigating the Risk of QTc Prolongation When Using Haloperidol for Acute Treatment of Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome in Adolescents and Young Adults” in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. 

Presentations

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

• Dr. Sherry Wang and others presented “Adopting Trustworthy AI for Sleep Disorder Prediction: Deep Time Series Analysis with Temporal Attention Mechanism and Counterfactual Explanations” to appear in the IEEE Workshop on Trustworthy Machine Learning for Healthcare (TrustML4Health’24) in Washington D.C. on December 18, 2024
• Dr. Keykavous Parang presented “Cyclic Peptide-Doxorubicin Conjugates to Overcome Multi-Drug Resistance and Reduce Toxicity”, at the Association of Pharmacy Professionals (APP) 13th Annual International Convention, 7th Indo-Australian Conference at Vijaya Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences for Women in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India.
• Dr. Sun Yang presented “Developing novel treatments for malignant cutaneous melanoma by targeting nNOS and APE/Ref-1” to the TianYa Pharmaceutical Sciences Symposium at Shen Yang Pharmaceutical University on November 25, 2024.
• Dr. Sun Yang presented “Changes in Real-World Dispensing of ADHD Stimulants in Youth in California” to the Computational and Data Science Program Research Seminar at Chapman University Schmid College of Science and Technology in Orange, CA on November 20, 2024

Posters

Dr. Jerika Lam and Dr. Shaien Rivers and presented “Comparison of Statin Use For Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in People With HIV at a Federally Qualified Health Center Clinic” to the Annual American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Conference in New Orleans, LA on Dec. 11, 2024.