Newswise — In the Opening Session of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists’ (AAPS) 2010 National Biotechnology Conference, AAPS President Danny D. Shen, Ph.D., presented the following ground-breaking researchers with awards commemorating their contributions to the pharmaceutical sciences:
Excellence in Ligand-Binding Assay Award –Sponsored by Millipore •From ANP Technologies, Inc.: Ray Yin; Yli Vallejo; Jing Pan, Ph.D.; Thomas Small; Dujie Qin; Dave Chen From Merck & Co., Inc.: Cindy Pauley; Catherine Kaplansky; Thorsten Verch, Ph.D.; Ray Bakhtiar, Ph.D.— “NIDS® Rapid Assays for the Detection of Anti-Drug Antibodies to Peptide Drugs”
Innovation in Biotechnology Awards –Sponsored by Genentech•From Amgen Inc.: Todd Hager; Hossein Salimi-Moosavi, Ph.D.; Binodh DeSilva, Ph.D.— “A Multi-ELISA Approach for Evaluation In Vivo Stability of Recombinant Fusion Proteins” •From University of Massachusetts Medical School: Hongwei Zhang, Ph.D.; Bin Yang, Ph.D.; Guangping Gao— “Global Transgene Expression in Mouse Brain by Intravenous Administration of Recombinant AAV Serotypes”•From Central Michigan University: Ajit Sharma, Ph.D.; Choon Young Lee, Ph.D.; Rebecca L. Uzarski, Ph.D.; Samik Upadhaya; Jae Cheong; Julie Nelson— “Potent Dendritic Antioxidants Without Pro-oxidant Activity” •From EpiVax, Inc.: Annie De Groot, Ph.D.; Janet Buhlmann; Leonard Moise; From Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Children’s Hospital Boston: Nader Najafian, Francesca D’Addio; Mohammed Sayegh. From Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia: Katherine High; Daniel Hui, Federico Mingozzi. From the Institute for Immunology and Informatics, University of Rhode Island: Leslie De Groot. From University of Maryland: Achsah Keegan; David Scott, Ph.D.— “Preclinical Design of Less Immunogenic Biologics: Tregitopes and Tolerance” Biotechnology Graduate Student Symposium Awards –Sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company
NOTE: The Graduate Student Symposium will take place on Wednesday, May 19 at noon in Yosemite Rooms AB and C of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square.•Yunching Chen – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Nanoparticles Delivering siRNA and Doxorubicin Overcome Drug Resistance in Cancer”•Ying He – University of Illinois at Chicago “Regulation of Opioid Tolerance by Let-7 microRNAs Targeting the Human and Mouse µ Opioid Receptors”•Jithesh Velichamthotu Veetil ¬¬¬¬– University of Arkansas, Fayetteville “Glucose Binding Protein Based Nanosensors as a Versatile Platform for Developing Reagentless Biosensors for Continuous Monitoring of Intracellular and in Vitro Glucose Levels”•Zhe Wang – National University of Singapore “RGD Peptide Modified Nanoparticulated Combinatorial Delivery System of Paclitaxel and Combretastatin A4 for Anticancer and Antivasculature Activities”
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