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TRAINING AND EDUCATION
| 2011 - present | Scientific Stuff (Rutgers: IS&T, HPC - RWJMS), Newark, NJ |
| 2002 - 2011 | Post-Doctoral Research Associate (RWJMS-UMDNJ), Piscataway, NJ |
| 2001 | Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri St.Louis (UMSL), St.Louis, Missouri, USA |
| 1998 | Ph.D., Bioorganic Chemistry, Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds, Institute of Bioorganic & Petrochemistry, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine Thesis: “Computational modeling, synthesis and biological tests of peptide immunomodulators” |
| 1993 | M.S. in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry of Natural Compounds, Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine |
RECENT AND CURRENT SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS
- Development of a new computational tools for a rational drug design and QSAR (shape signatures, neural networks and pattern recognition technique)
- Rational design for biomaterials and biodegradable polymers (QSAR, molecular dynamics, de novo design)
- Pregnane X receptor (PXR): modeling and design of species-specific ligands (homology modeling, molecular dynamics, pharmacophore search, high-throughput screening, docking, QSAR)
- Cannabinoid receptor inhibitors: elucidation of the mechanism of action (QSAR CoMFA/COMSIA, pharmacophore modeling, conformational search)
- Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases: modeling of amyloid fibril formation and its spatial organization (molecular dynamics)
- Na, K-ATPase modeling, and the design of novel inhibitors - congestive heart failure (homology and pharmacophore modeling, conformational search, de novo drug design, docking, 3-D database search)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
| 2002-present | Lecturer/Instructor, Structural Bioinformatics I, Structural Bioinformatics II and Fundamentals of Bioinformatics Informatics Institute, UMDNJ, Piscataway/Newark, NJ |
HONORS
| 2003 | Research Achievement Award, UMDNJ, NJ |
| 2002 | Research Achievement Award, UMDNJ, NJ |
| 2002-2003 | Young Investigator Award, UMDNJ, NJ |
| 1999-2000 | Stipendiary Award of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sci., Ukraine |
| 1998-1999 | Stipendiary Award of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sci., Ukraine |
MEMBERSHIP
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- New York Academy of Science (NYAS)