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Mike Beazely
School of Pharmacy, Associate Professor
Annemarie Dedek
School of Pharmacy, Assistant Professor
Andrea Edginton
School of Pharmacy, Professor, Hallman Director, Associate Dean (Faculty of Science)
David Edwards
School of Pharmacy, Professor
Kelly Grindrod
School of Pharmacy, Associate Professor
[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners
[Waterloo Stories] November 16, 2016 "The opioid crisis: How pharmacists can help save lives"
Emmanuel Ho
School of Pharmacy, Associate Professor
[Waterloo News] February 6, 2019 "Researchers find new treatment for Chlamydia"
[Waterloo News] April 16, 2018 "Developing new way to fight transmission of HIV"
John Honek
Chemistry, Professor
[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners
Okey Igboeli
Science and Business, Associate Professor - Teaching Stream, Director of Science and Business Program
Lyndon Jones
Optometry and Vision Science
Research Interests:
- Clinical trial design
- Contact lens performance
- Drug delivery
- Ocular biomaterials
- Proteins at interfaces
University Research Chair
Office of Research - Technology Transfer & Commercialization:
Subha Kalyaanamoorthy
Chemistry, Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
- Design/discovery of potential therapeutics to target various diseases
- Understanding the structure and pharmacology of membrane proteins
- Development of in silico methods/tools for sequence, structure and functional analysis
- Inferring the structure-function evolution of proteins
- Protein engineering for biotechnology and pharmaceutical applications
[American Chemical Society] January 23, 2012 "Exploring Inhibitor Release Pathways in Histone Deacetylases Using Random Acceleration Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
[Wiley Online Library] July 27, 2013 "Ligand release mechanisms and channels in histone deacetylases"
[Royal Society of Chemistry] December 19, 2013 "A steered molecular dynamics mediated hit discovery for histone deacetylases"
[Nature Methods] May 8, 2017 "ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates"
[Royal Society of Chemistry] October 24, 2017 "Reverse engineering: transaminase biocatalyst development using ancestral sequence reconstruction"
Zoya Leonenko
Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests:
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Biophysics of lipids and lipid-protein interactions
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The role of structural changes and physical properties of lipid template in controlling biological processes and diseases
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Biomedical nanotechnology (lipid films, molecular mechanism of Alzheimer's disease)
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Drug development and delivery systems, antimicrobial peptides in lung disorders
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Fluorescence and atomic force microscopy
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Kelvin probe force microscopy and single molecule force spectroscopy
[Global Impact] May 2018, studying Alzheimer's at a molecular level to find a cure
[YouTube Lecture] October 1, 2014 "Scanning probe microscopy in biomedical research"
Kaylena Ehgoetz Martens
Kinesiology
Research interests:
- Aging and neurodegeneration
- Movement disorders
- Gait kinematics
- Neuropsychology and neurocognitive assessment
- Mood, emotion and cognition
- Fear, threat, anxiety and depression
- Virtual reality
John Mielke
School of Public Health Sciences
Research interests:
- Neurobiological embedding of adversity
- Biological characteristics that influence outcome from brain injury
- Drug development, biomarkers
- Stroke; biological characteristics that influence outcomes from brain injury
Praveen Rao Perampalli Nekkar
School of Pharmacy
Research Interests:
- Drug discovery
- Rational drug design and medicinal chemistry
- Cancer therapy
- Treatment of neurological disorders (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's)
- Drug discovery/rational design
- Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel organic molecules and peptides/peptidomimics as therapeutic agents
[Science News] October 22, 2018 "Nekkar lab determines that depression medications can help treat Alzheimer’s disease"
[Pharmacy News] July 29, 2015 "Waterloo pharmacist examines drug therapies for Alzheimer’s disease"
Tejal Patel
School of Pharmacy
Madjid Soltani
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Adjunct Assistant Professor
David Spafford
Biology
Research Interests:
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Calcium channel analysis for target drug delivery for treatment of pain, arrhythmias, angina, and potential benefits in treatment of epilepsy and cancer.
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Structure, function and pharmacology of calcium channels and sodium channels
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Structure and function and analysis of NALCN cation channel and anti-calcium channel toxins
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The Spafford Neurobiology Research Laboratory studies voltage-gated calcium channels, molecular physiology, biophysics, cell biology, protein biochemistry, fluorescence microscopy and tissue cultures.
[Science News] April 25, 2014 "Waterloo discovers a key regulator in the pacemakers of our brain and heart"
Scott Taylor
Chemistry
Research Interests:
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Medicinal chemistry/enzymology (treatment of prostate and breast cancer, diabetes)
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Nanomedicine; development of novel antibiotics
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Bionanomaterials; synthetic polymers and methodologies
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Peptide, charbohydrate, nucleoside and nucleotide chemistry
[Daily Bulletin] June 1, 2018, 11 CBB Members Named Outstanding Performance Award Winners
[Science News] February 4, 2015 "Chemists develop new method to improve the discovery of antibiotics"