One graduate student from the School of Pharmacy’s Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences spoke at a June conference while another recently received a travel scholarship to attend a national meeting in August.
Ahmed Alobaida, a research assistant working in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
laboratory of Fakhrul Ahsan, Ph.D., made an invited podium presentation for the New
Devices and Emerging Therapies networking focus group June 5 during the International Society of Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM) Congress in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His presentation was titled “Inhaled S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine
(SNAP), a nitric oxide donor, for pulmonary preferential reduction of arterial pressure
in PAH.” ISAM maintains six focus groups to foster networking among its membership.
Their mission is to stimulate and further the interdisciplinary cooperation and exchange
of information in all aspects of aerosol research in medicine including health effects
of inhaled aerosols and pulmonary drug delivery.
In addition, Ph.D. candidate Kshitij Verma, who works as a research assistant in the
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences laboratory of Paul Trippier, Ph.D., was selected
by the Division of Medicinal Chemistry to receive a travel grant to attend the 254th
American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting & Exposition Aug. 20-24 in Washington, D.C. The ACS Division
of Medicinal Chemistry offers a limited number of grants annually to help young chemists
present papers at the national ACS meetings. Abstracts from student members of the
ACS MEDI Division are considered by the scientific merit of the paper to be presented. 
