Pictured L to R above: Kumar, Midde, Patters
American Association of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Annual Meeting
On April 2-6, 2016, Santosh Kumar, PhD, associate professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and his research group traveled to San Diego, CA for the ASPET 2016 Annual Meeting. Dr. Kumar organized and chaired a symposium on “Drugs of Abuse and Antiretrovirals: Interactions and Toxicities” in the Division of Drug Metabolism.
Dr. Narasimha Midde, Kumar’s postdoctoral fellow, was awarded with the ASPET Post-Doctorate travel award by the Division of Drug Metabolism. He also gave a platform presentation in the Division of Drug Metabolism Post-Doctorate Symposium at ASPET 2016.
Benjamin Patters, Dr. Kumar’s graduate student, presented a poster at ASPET 2016 entitled “Effect of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons of Cigarette Smoke Condensate on Cytochrome P450 and Oxidative Stress Pathways in Monocytic Cells: Implications for HIV-1 Pathogenesis.”
Society on Neuroimmune Pharmacology (SNIP)
As Secretary of the society, Santosh Kumar assisted in the organization of the 22nd annual meeting of the Society on Neuroimmune Pharmacology (SNIP) held on April 6-9, 2016 in Krakow, Poland, and Benjamin Patters was awarded with the SNIP travel award to Poland.