Dr. German joined the faculty at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at TTUHSC in August 2014. She obtained her PhD in Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry at the University of Iowa with Dr.R. Kerns, where she worked on synthesis of chemical probes designed to overcome bacterial resistance to antibiotics. This work resulted in discovering of novel inhibitor NorA and MepA efflux pumps as one of the most potent compounds to date. In 2007, Dr. German joined research group of Dr. R. Glennon at Virginia Commonwealth University as a postdoctoral fellow where she continued her medicinal chemistry-based research in the area of allosteric modulation of nicotinic receptors. In 2010, she continued her training at RTI International working with Dr. Y. Zhang on design and synthesis of various ligands for CNS receptors.
Interests
- Addiction
- Biochemistry
- Breast health/cancer
- Cancer
- Depression
- Drugs
- Infectious disease
- Lung cancer
- Microbiology
- Multiple sclerosis
- Oncology
- Pain
- Parkinson's disease
- Pharmacology
- Research
- Stroke
- Women's health
Pharmacy Research Interests
- LC-MS/MS, LC-UV/VIS, LC-ECD, UPLC-MS/MS
- antimicrobial
- cancer chemotherapy
- chemistry
- chemo-prevention
- chemotherapy
- disease state prevention
- drug development
- drug discovery
- drug toxicity
- invitro
- medicinal chemistry
- neuroinflammatory disease