Principal Investigator: Kamaljit Kaur, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Chapman University School of Pharmacy Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports NPG and Pharmaceutics
Graduate Student: Jane Yao, MS (Ph.D. student)
Project: Peptides and Peptide-Drug Conjugates (PDCs) Targeting Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)
Graduate Student: Riad Bellili (MSPS student)
Project: Amylin receptor antagonists delivery to brain for treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Pharm.D. Student: Shelby Kim
Capstone Project: Role of cell-surface receptors in increasing drug concentration at cancer site
Pharm.D. Student: Stacy Dong
Capstone Project: Utilizing overexpressed cell-surface receptors in cancer for targeted drug delivery
Undergraduate Student: Keon Jafari (Biol. major)
Project: Synthesis of peptide-drug conjugate targeting TNBC via EGFR
ALUMNI
Post-doctoral Fellows
Amaresh Sahoo, Ph.D. – 2016
Hanieh Ariani, Ph.D. – 2018
Graduate Student: Phi-Phung Than (MSPS student)
Project: The Development of a Novel Peptide-Drug Conjugate for Treating Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Graduated: September 2022
Graduate Student: Azam Saghaeidehkordi, MS, Ph.D.
Project: Doxorubicin-conjugates for targeting breast cancer cells
Graduated: August 2021
Graduate Student: Elmira Ziaei, MS, Ph.D.
Project: K1 targeting peptide-drug conjugates for breast cancer targeting and treatment
Graduated: June 2021
Graduate Student: Cassandra Dill, MS
Project: Doxorubicin-conjugates for targeting melanoma and breast cancer cells
Graduated: August 2020
Graduate Student: Emad Althagafi, MS (Ph.D. student)
Project: Engineering Cyclic Analogue of a Cancer Targeting Peptide GE11 for Enhanced Proteolytic Stability
Graduated: August 2018
Graduate Student: Yazeed Alanazi, MSPS
Project: Antibacterial activity of polyaniline membranes
Graduated: May 2018
Graduate Student: Tushar Kim, MS
Project: AMPs against Listeria monocytogenes and other pathogenic bacteria
Graduated: August 2017
Capstone Project: Peptide-drug conjugates for increasing the efficacy of cancer treatment
Graduated: Aug 2021
Pharm.D. Student: Chelsea Ilada
Capstone Project: Engineering peptide conjugates for treatment of breast cancer
Graduated: Aug 2020
Capstone Project: Peptide-based platform for breast cancer cell detection
Graduated: Aug 2019
Pharm.D. Student: Alyssa Gbewonyo
Capstone Project: Screen peptide array library for breast cancer cell targeting
Graduated: Aug 2018
Undergraduate Student: Andrew Pham (Health Sc. major)
Project: Synthesis of a breast cancer cell targeting peptide
Graduated: May 2019
Undergraduate Student: Alicia Cuber (double major)
Project: Synthesis of breast cancer cell targeting peptides
Graduated: May 2017