Biography
Dr. Weinshilboum received B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Kansas, followed by residency training in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard Hospital, in Boston. He was also a Pharmacology Research Associate at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Julius Axelrod. He is presently Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine at the Mayo Clinic Medical School. He also Co-Directs the Pharmacogenomics Program of the Mayo Center for Individualized Medicine.
Research Interest
Dr. Weinshilboum’s research has focused on pharmacogenomics, with over 470 published manuscripts on that topic. In recent decades he has applied genome-wide genomics and other “omics†techniques to study drug response—for example, the drug therapy of depression. Dr. Weinshilboum has been the recipient of many awards including an Established Investigatorship of the American Heart Association, a Burroughs Wellcome Scholar Award in Clinical Pharmacology, the Oscar B. Hunter Award of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the ASPET Harry Gold Award, the Edvard Poulsson Award from the Norwegian Pharmacology Society and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Kansas. Dr. Weinshilboum has served as a member of the Advisory Councils for two US NIH Institutes, the National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)—the NIH Institute where Pharmacology is based--and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)—the NIH Institute that sponsored the Human Genome Project.
Biography
Dr. Bimal Roy Krishna is currently Professor and Director of Pharmacology at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Touro University in Nevada. He obtained a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honors) in Pharmacology and Physiology and a Doctor of Philosophy, Medicine (OB/GYN/Pharmacology) from Monash University in Australia. Dr. Krishna also teaches for the Step 1 USMLE and COMLEX reviews for Kaplan Medical throughout the United States and in UAE, Europe, Saudi Arabia, India, Mexico and the Caribbean. He has been teaching online for Kaplan University for over 7 years. He has contributed to numerous publications and is a member of a number of organizations including Fellow-American College of Clinical Pharmacology.
Research Interest
His research background is in maternal and neonatal pharmacology specifically looking at materno-fetal transfer utilizing the perfused human placental and cultured syncytiotrophoblast model. Complementary and Alternative medicine is another area of interest.
Biography
Professor Dr. Heyam Saad Ali, She used to work as a head of pharmaceutics department in Dubai Pharmacy College, UAE. Currently, she is working in University of Khartoum, Faculty of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutics Department, Prof. contributed more than 70 articles to reputed international scientific journals and invited as speaker in many conferences. The subjects of interest include: different types of conventional, controlled and targeted drug delivery systems in nanotechnology, pharmaceutical product development, Quality control, Quality assurance and GMP in pharmaceutical industry. She has been invited as speaker to numerous International conferences. In, addition of being Editor, Reviewer and member of editorial board of many international journals
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