NATURAL PRODUCTS NEUROSCIENCE FELLOWS

The goal is to facilitate the recruitment of top graduate students to Mississippi and form a nucleus of trainees in natural products neuroscience. The CORE-NPN provides a stipend supplements to meritorious graduate students who conduct research at the interface of natural products and neuroscience.    

A call for proposals for 2013 NPN Fellows was issued in Spring 2013 and has now closed. New NPN Fellows will be announced in Summer 2013.

 

2010-2011 NPN Fellows

Mona Haron

Modulatory Effect of Panax Ginseng on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Name of Student: Mona Haron                      
Department: Pharmacology              
Name of Mentor: Dr. Asok Dasmahapatra

Tushar Hingorani

Development and Characterization of a Novel Submicron Emulsion System for Effective Delivery of THC in Glaucoma

Name of Student: Tushar Hingorani                      
Department: Pharmaceutics           
Name of Mentor: Dr. Soumyajit Majumdar

Seshulatha Jamalapuram

In Vivo Preclinical Pharmacokinetics and In Vitro Metabolism of Novel Sigma Receptor Ligands

Name of Student: Seshulatha Jamalapuram                      
Department: Pharmaceutics           
Name of Mentor: Dr. Bonnie Avery

Abhishek Juluri

Intranasal Delivery of Silibinin for Upregulation of Neurotrophin Levels in the Brain

Name of Student: Abhishek Juluri                      
Department: Pharmaceutics           
Name of Mentor: Dr. S. Narasimha Murthy

Jiannan Lu

Preparation, Characterization and Evaluation of a Solid Dispersion Matrix Formulation for Paclitaxel with Nanomaterials using Hot-Melt Extrusion

Name of Student: Jiannan Lu                      
Department: Pharmaceutics           
Name of Mentor: Dr. Michael Repka

Sindhuri Maddineni

Development of Novel Soluble Mixtures of Soluplus Containing Natural Products (Coenzyme Q10 & Curcumin) as Potential Neuroprotective Agents, Utilizing the Hot-Melt Extrusion Technology

Name of Student: Sindhuri Maddineni                     
Department: Pharmaceutics            
Name of Mentor: Dr. Michael Repka

Prashanth Manda

Nose to Cerebrospinal Fluid Delivery of Ziconotide for the Treatment of Chronic Pain

Name of Student:  Prashanth Manda                     
Department:  Pharmaceutics          
Name of Mentor: Dr. S. Narasimha Murthy

Naresh Modepalli

Transdermal Delivery of Tanshinone IIA for the Treatment of Diabetic Neuropathy

Name of Student:  Naresh Modepalli                    
Department: Pharmaceutics           
Name of Mentor: Dr. S. Narasimha Murthy

Ketaki Patwardhan

Taste Masking of a Bitter Natural Alkaloid Using Hot-Melt Extrusion

Name of Student:  Ketaki Patwardhan                    
Department: Pharmaceutics           
Name of Mentor: Dr. Michael Repka

Shuneize Slater

Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitor Obtained from Studies of Galantamine for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease

Name of Student: Shuneize Slater                      
Department: Medicinal Chemistry    
Name of Mentor: Dr. Mitchell Avery

Henry Valle

Hybridized Structures of Lipoic Acid Replacing Octanoic Acid in Arundic Acid as Enhanced Neuroprotective Agents for Neurodegenerative and Related Disease

Name of Student: Henry Valle
Department:  Medicinal Chemistry
Name of Mentor: Dr. Mitchell Avery

Jingjing Wang

Screening of Natural Product for Their Activation on the Melanocortin-4 Receptor (MC4)

Name of Student: Jingjing Wang
Department:  Pharmacology
Name of Mentor: Dr. Ziaeddin Shariat-Madar

Mengmeng Wu

Identification of Morphometric, Behavioral, and Genetic Features of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Using Medaka (Oryzias Latipes) as Animal Model and Chinese Ginseng’s Preventive Effects of ASD

Name of Student: Mengmeng Wu
Department:  Pharmacology
Name of Mentor: Dr. Asok Dasmahapatra

Henry Valle

Blockade of Caspase-1 by Berkeleyamide A Analogs for the Treatment of Specific Neurological Disorders Such as Autoimmune Inflammatory Diseases

Name of Student: Yunshan Wu         
Department: Medicinal Chemistry
Name of Mentor: Dr. Mitchell Avery

   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 


The Center of Research Excellence in Natural Products Neuroscience (CORE-NPN) is funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as one of its Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence   Last Modified: 5/15/2013
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