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Principal Investigator
Sailaja Paruchuri
Professor
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
University of Toledo Health Science Campus
Room 247, Block Health Science Building
3000 Arlington Ave, Toledo, OH 43614
Email: Sailaja.Paruchuri@utoledo.edu
Phone: (419) 383-4465
2017- June 2021-Associate Professor (Tenured), Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, Akron, OH.
2011-2017- James Foght Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Akron, Akron, OH
2010-2011- Research Associate, Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
2006-2009- Research Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2004-2006- Research Fellow, Vascular Biology, Children’s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
1999-2004- PhD, Experimental Pathology, Lund University, Sweden
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Lakshminarayan Reddy Teegala
Post-doc
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Room 269, Block Health Science Building
3000 Arlington Ave, Toledo, OH 43614
Email: lakshminarayan.teegala@utoledo.edu
2016-2021- Post-doc, Department of Chemistry, University of Akron
2009-2015- PhD, Department of Chemical Biology, CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, India
Research: Role of cysteinyl leukotrienes in Inflammation and Tumor angiogenesis
Dr. Thanusha AV
Post-doc
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Room 385, Block Health Science Building
3000 Arlington Ave, Toledo, OH 43614
Email: thanusha.av@utoledo.edu
2022 -present: Postdoctoral fellow, University of Toledo
2019-2022: Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow, University of Limerick, Ireland
2014-2019: PhD, Centre for Biomedical engineering, IIT Delhi
Research: Role of cysteinyl leukotrienes in inflammation and wound healing
Graduate students
Emma Elizabeth Sabu Kattuman
PhD student in the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology
Email: emmaelizabeth.sabukattuman@rockets.utoledo.edu
2021 – Present: PhD student, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Toledo
2019 - 2020: Research Intern, Dept. of Neurosciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
2015 – 2019: Bachelor of Technology (Genetics), SRM IST, Chennai, India
Research: Understanding the role of eicosanoids in tumor progression and metastasis
MS students
Erik Southard
MS student, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
Email: erik.southard@rockets.utoledo.edu
20-20- BS
Research: Eicosanoids in inflammation
Alumni
Postdocs
Dr. Vinay Kondeti, PhD
Current Affiliation: Scientist at AGTC
Graduate and MS students
Ravindra Gudneppanavar, PhD (2022)
Sabita Pokhrel, PhD (2021)
Current Affiliation: Postdoc at North East Ohio Medical University
Tatiana Chachkovskyy, MS (2019)
Current Affiliation: Research scientist at Cellular Technology LTD
Matthew Snyderman, MS (2018)
Current Affiliation: Research Tech at Cleveland Clinic
Nosayba Al-Azzam, PhD (2017)
Current Affiliation: Asst. Prof at Jordan University of Science and Technology
Farai Gombedza, PhD (2017)
Current Affiliation: Asst. Prof at Purdue University Northwest
Ernest, Duah, PhD (2016)
Current Affiliation: Research Scientist at Tolero Pharmaceutical Inc.
Bethany Hart, MS (2016)
Current Affiliation: Chemistry teacher, Norwayne High School
Prachi Patil, MS (2015)
Current Affiliation: Medical writer, AOI, Communications
Undergraduate students
| Katie Stimler | Bahar Cheema | Ashley Emory |
| Joel Sanford | Stephanie Koppes | Michael Robinson |
| Madison Hexter | Daniel Phillips | Christina Buda |
| Samrawit Ghebreigziabher | Matthew Hom | Sathwika Thodeti |
| Kalton Cherry | Ignacio Gavilanes | Loga Iyer |
| Nathaly Contreras | Elise Jacobsson | Arvid Eriksson |