Atena Farahpour
Chemistry PhD Student, Rein Ulijn Lab
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Job Title
Objective
Looking for summer research opportunities for 2024 in the field of pharmaceutics. Starting to write my first paper in my PhD in 2023 as my short-term objective.
Bio
As a member of the Rein Ulijn lab, is interested in discovery of potential nanocarriers using supramolecular co-assembly of peptides and drugs. She is interested to develop new peptide nano-therapies for applications in medicine to treat cancer. She will become co-mentored by Dan Heller in the department of Pharmacology at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Technical Skills
• Mass spectrometer
• Dynamic light scattering (DLS)
• UV/Vis spectrometer
• Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
• Spectrofluorimetric
• Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR)
• Luminometer
Professional Development Skills
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Publications
• Atena Farahpour, Navid Ramezanian, Leila Gholami, Saeedeh Askarian, Arsham Banisadr, Reza Kazemi Oskuee, ‶Synthesis and characterization of polyethyleneimine-terminated poly(β-amino esters) conjugated with pullulan for gene delivery″ Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, 7 Jul 2022
Conferences
• Atena Farahpour, Navid Ramezaniana, Reza Kazemi Oskuee, Saeedeh Askarian, Arsham Banisadr ‶Using FTIR spectroscopy to characterization Poly(β-amino ester) synthesized with spermine end group″ 4thIranian Applied Chemistry Conference, 23-25 July 2019.
• Atena Farahpour, Navid Ramezanian, Reza Kazemi Oskuee ‶Synthesis of poly (β-amino ester) based on polyethyleneimine and characterization using FTIR″ 4thIranian Applied Chemistry Conference, 23-25 July 2019.
Awards
• GC scholarship (2022)
• Exceptional Talents Award (2017)
• Scholarship for bachelor’s degree (2013)
