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Matthew Wampole , President – Matt is from North Wales, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, PA. He went on to achieved Masters and PhD from Bryn Mawr College, in Bryn Mawr, PA. After graduating he joined Dr. Eric Wickstrom's lab where his primary work is developing a patient specific surgery simulator and assisting with molecular mechanical studies of ligand binding with EGFR. |
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Mehboob Ali, Senior Vice-President – Mehboob Ali is from New Delhi, the capital of India. He received his Ph.D and M.Sc in Toxicology from Hamdard University, New Delhi, India. He did his first postdoc (two years) at Department of Physiology, PennState College of Medicine, Hershey, PA. Ali is now in his fourth year of his postdoc in the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. His study focus is to investigate that how VASP, an actin regulatory protein, phosphorylation regulating colon cancer metastasis. |
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Christopher Willis, Vice-President for Career Development – Chris is a native of the great city of Philadelphia. He attended the University of Delaware for undergraduate and majored in Biochemistry while conducting research in a solid-state NMR laboratory. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Maryland School of Medicine where he worked in a skeletal muscle physiology lab studying ankyrin protein-protein interactions. He is now a postdoc in the laboratory of Dr. Renato Iozzo, Department of Pathology, studying anti-angiogenic mechanisms of endorepellin and VEGFR2 signaling. |
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Asha Srinivasan, Vice-President for Communications – Asha is originally from India where she received her BS in biochemistry. She completed her masters in Biomedical Sciences specializing in Cell Pathology from Bradford University, UK. Later she continued at the Bradford University to obatin her PhD in Biological Chemistry. After PhD, she joined Dr. Shoyele's lab as a Postdoctoral researcher at Dept. of Pharmaceutics in Feb 2011. |
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Greg Dickinson, Vice-President for Nominations and Elections
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Dominique Comer, Vice-President for Social Affairs – Dominique comes from Lexington, KY, yet is originally from northern Ohio. She earned her PharmD from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy in Lexington. She currently is a first year postdoctoral fellow at the Jefferson School of Population Health, specializing in Health Economics and Outcomes Research. She is also in the process of earning her MS in Health Policy. |
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Biswanath Patra, Secretary – Biswanath Patra comes from Kolkata, India. After finishing his Ph.D/DVM degree in India he did genome mapping research in UAMS, AR and Cancer Biology research in UTSW at Dallas, TX before
moving to Thomas Jefferson University. He joined Pathology department in March 2009 as a postdoctoral fellow in the Genomics and System Biology lab
of Dr. Rajanikanth Vadigepalli. His primary work is to characterized genome wide changes in cell signaling network during liver regeneration and chronic alcohol intake. |
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Treasurer, Mansi Khanna |
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