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Photo of Anna Kochanowska-Karamyan Name: Anna Kochanowska-Karamyan
Position: Assistant Professor
Email: anna.karamyan@ttuhsc.edu
Bio Anna Kochanowska-Karamyan joined the TTUHSC SOP Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in November 2010. She received her M.Pharm. degree from the Medical University of Lublin, Poland in 2005. In August 2005 she joined the graduate program in the Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Mississippi, where she pursued and completed a Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences working with Professor Mark Hamann. Dr. Kochanowska-Karamyan’s doctoral research focused on isolation, characterization, and synthesis of new antidepressant drug leads from marine invertebrates. She is a licensed pharmacist in Poland and a number of other European Union countries (2005 – present).

Education:

M.Pharm. Honors Diploma; specialized in herbal pharmaceuticals and compounding. Faculty of Pharmacy, Skubiszewski Medical University of Lublin, Poland (June 2005)
Ph.D. Pharmaceutical Sciences with emphasis in Pharmacognosy. Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA (December 2009)

Publications:

  • Kochanowska-Karamyan, A.J., Hamann, M.T. 2010. Indole alkaloids: potential new drug leads for depression and anxiety. Chem. Rev. 110 (8), 4489-4497.

  • Kochanowska, A.J., Rao, K.V., Childress, S., El-Alfy, A., Matsumoto, R.R., Kelly, M., Stewart, G.S., Sufka, K., Hamann, M.T. 2008. Secondary metabolites from three Florida sponges with antidepressant activity. J. Nat. Prod. 71, 186-189.


  • Diers, J.A., Ivey, K.D., El-Alfy, A., Shaikh, J., Wang, J., Kochanowska A.J., Stocker, J.F., Hamann, M.T., Matsumoto, R.R. 2008. Identification of antidepressant drug leads through the evaluation of marine natural products with neuropsychiatric pharmacophores. Pharm. Biochem. Behavior. 89, 46-53.


  • Bowling, J.J., Kochanowska, A.J., Kasanah, N., Hamann, M.T. 2007. Nature’s bounty - drug discovery from the sea. Expert Opin. Drug Dis., 2 (11), 1505-1522.