Pharmacology and Toxicology Department Highlights: January 2021

(January 1, 2021)

Publications

Predicting Drug Interactions with Human Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporters 1 and 2 Using Functional Knockout Cell Lines and Bayesian Modeling. Molecular Pharmacology 2020 Dec 1. PMID: 33262250.

• Miller, S
• Zhang, X
• Hau, R
• Jilek, J
• Jennings, E
• James J Galligan, PhD
• Foil, D
• Zorn, K
• Ekins, S
• Stephen H Wright, PhD
• Nathan Cherrington, PhD, ATS

Association between the polymorphism of three e genes involved in the methylation and efflux of arsenic (As3MT, MRP1 and P-gp) with lung cancer. Journal of Applied Toxicology.

• Recio-Vega, R
• Hernandez-Gonzalez, S
• Michel-Ramirez, G
• Olivas-Calderón, E
• Lantz, R
• A. Jay Gandolfi, PhD

Kudos

Donna D. Zhang, PhD

• Uncovering Mechanisms to Treat Arsenic-induced Diseases featured by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

A. Jay Gandolfi, PhD

• Published research in every decade since the 1960s

Siennah Miller (from the lab of Nathan Cherrington, PhD, ATS)

• Selected as the Molecular Pharmacology Highlighted Trainee for February 2021

Jianqin Lu, BPharm, PhD

• Featured as an alumnus by American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists-Pitt Student Chapter 2020 newspaper

• Chosen as Secretary of Knowledge Management of the in the AACP Pharmaceutics Section