Dr. Jatinder Lamba’s lab receives multiple research accolades

The research team team led by Jatinder Lamba, Ph.D., Ms.C., a professor of pharmacotherapy and translational research, received multiple national and college awards in the fall of 2019.

  • Graduate student Mohammed Gbadamosi received the Minority Abstract Achievement Award from American Society of Hematology for the abstract entitled, “Novel CD33 Antibodies Unravel Localization, Biology, and Therapeutic Implications of CD33 Isoforms.” Gbadamosi presented an oral session at the annual ASH meeting in Orlando.
  • Graduate student Abdelrahman Elsayed received an Abstract Achievement Award from American Society of Hematology for the abstract entitled, “A 5-Gene Ara-C, Daunorubicin and Etoposide (ADE) Drug Response Score As a Prognostic Tool to Predict AML Treatment Outcome,” which was presented as a poster at the annual ASH meeting in Orlando.
  • Postdoc Roya Rafiee, Ph.D., received an Abstract Achievement Award from the American Society of Hematology for an abstract entitled, “Genome-Scale CRISPR-Cas9 Synthetic Lethal Screening of AML Cell Line Identified Functional Modulators of Etoposide Resistance Predictive of Clinical Outcome in AML Patients,” which was presented as a poster at the annual ASH meeting in Orlando.
  • Graduate student Abdelrahman Elsayed received an ASCPT 2020 Presidential Trainee Award from American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics for an abstract entitled, “Ara-C SNP Score as a Predictive Tool of AML Treatment Outcome,” which will be presented at the annual ASCPT meeting in Houston.
  • Graduate student Abdelrahman Elsayed is the recipient of the 2019/2020 Ronald J. and Sally G. Brenner Fellowship from the UF College of Pharmacy.