ASPET announces new leadership
Four members of the 精品国产一区二区桃色 are poised to take leadership roles this summer in the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics: Namandj茅 Bumpus, Xinxin Ding, Lawrence Boise and Maurine Linder.

, a professor and director of the department of pharmacology and molecular sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been elected president of ASPET. Her term will begin July 1.
Bumpus studies the metabolism of antiviral drugs used to treat HIV and hepatitis by the cytochromes P450 family of liver enzymes. Her lab uses pharmacogenomic and metabolomic approaches to understand why some antivirals cause drug-induced acute liver failure in hopes of developing future therapies that don’t carry the same risk of toxicity.
Bumpus earned her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and was a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps Research. Her previous honors have included the Drug Metabolism Early Career award from ASPET, a young investigator award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

, a professor and head of the department of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, has been elected secretary/treasurer of ASPET.
Ding's research focuses on genetic and environmental risks for chemical toxicity. Recently, he has published on how inhaled naphthalene, which is used in moth balls, can cause genotoxicity and how bioactivation of toxicants in one organ can cause toxicity in another organ.
Ding earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan Medical School. He started his faculty career at the University at Albany, then worked at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute before moving to Arizona in 2017.

, a professor of hematology and medical oncology at Emory University School of Medicine and associate director for education and training at the Winship Cancer Institute, is to become secretary/treasurer for the society's division of cancer pharmacology.
Boise studies myeloma, a cancer of B cells. His lab conducts translational research to understand how gene expression in cancer cells governs their sensitivity to Bcl2 inhibitors, proteasome inhibitors and other classes of drug.
Boise earned a Ph.D. in pharmacology at the Medical College of Virginia and was a postdoc at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. Before joining the faculty at Emory, he was a professor and director of a graduate program in microbiology and immunology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

, a professor and chair of the department of molecular medicine at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, has been elected chair of the society's division for molecular pharmacology.
Linder studies the activity of DHHC acyltransferases, which carry out the post-translational modification protein S-palmitoylation. Her lab is interested in how palmitoylation affects signaling and how DHHC enzymes are themselves regulated through post-translational modification.
Linder earned her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Dallas and was a postdoc and later an instructor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She was a professor at Washington University School of Medicine before joining the faculty at Cornell in 2009.
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