Anna Radominska Pandya
Professor
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
USA
Biography
Anna Radominska Pandya serves as a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UAMS; and she is the Editor in Chief for Drug Metabolism Review. She received her PhD from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. She has published 175 papers in various peer-reviewed journals, and she has received twelve R01 grants from the NIH and DoD. Her research interests include: The regulation and suppression of human UGTs and their role as anti-proliferative agents in cancer models, the interactions between UGTs and cannabinoid receptors, the delivery of UGT genes and drugs into cancer cells using nanomaterial, and the roles of UGTs in the biotransformation of drugs including resveratrols and drugs of abuse such as marijuana and synthetic cannabinoids.
Research Interest
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Drug Metabolism, Toxicology and Biotransformation