Achievements

Presentations and Awards

2021

  1. Nguyen NK, Kashif R, Larkin T, et al. Pharmacogenomic SNP Scores as a Tool to Predict Toxicity Phenotypes in Treatment of Acute Childhood Leukemia. American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Annual Meeting Presidential Trainee Award and David J. Goldstein Trainee Award
  2. Shastri VM, Chauhan L, Alonzo TA, et al. A Polygenic DNA Damage Repair Pharmacogenomics (DDR_PGx8) Score Predicts GO Response in AML. American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting & Exposition ASH Abstract Achievement Award, 2021 UF Health Cancer Center Research Symposium Poster Winner, and American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Annual Meeting Presidential Trainee Award.
  3. Marrero RJ, Elsayed AH, Cao X, et al. Impact of SAMHD1 Pharmacogenetics on Clinical Outcome in Pediatric AML. [Poster 3429]. 2021 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting & Exposition. ASH Abstract Achievement Award and 2021 UF Health Cancer Center Research Symposium Poster Winner.
  4. Nguyen NK, Shastri VM, Ying L, et al. Pharmacogenomics of Fludarabine in Pediatric HCT Recipients: Preliminary Results. [Poster #908]. 2021 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting & Exposition. ASH Abstract Achievement Award and Selected for Oral Presentation.
  5. Nguyen NK, Wu H, Ping J,  et al. Leukemic Cell Proteomic Profiling in Pediatric AML A Pilot Study. 2021 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Virtual Conference. [Poster #2535]. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Virtual Conference. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Virtual Conference. AACR Scholar-in-Training Award.
  6. Gbadamosi, M. The CIDDR gene expression signature predicts response to gemtuzumab ozogamicin. 34th Annual College of Pharmacy Research Showcase. Senior Clinical Sciences Division. Oral Presentation Winner

2020

  1. Abdelrahman H. Elsayed, Xueyuan Cao, Jeffrey E Rubnitz, Raul C Ribeiro, Stanley B Pounds, and Jatinder K Lamba. “Ara-C SNP Score as a Predictive Tool of AML Treatment Outcome”. American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) annual meeting. ASCPT Presidential Trainee Award.
  2. Nguyen NK, Elsayed AH, Meshinchi S, Lamba JK. An Ara-C, Daunorubicin, and Etoposide microRNA (ADEmiR) Score As a Prognostic Tool to Predict AML Treatment Outcomes. American Society of Hematology (ASH) Virtual Conference.. ASH Abstract Achievement Award.
  3. Akhila Dadwai, Abdelrahman Elsayed and Jatinder K Lamba Single Nucleotide polymorphisms in genes of Prognostic significance in AML. UF College of Pharmacy 34rd Annual Research Showcase. COP Research Showcase Best poster award- PharmD category.
  4. Roya Rafiee, Amin Sobh, Abdelrahman H. Elsayed, Abderrahmane Tagmount, Chris D Vulpe, MD, and Jatinder K Lamba, Genome-Scale CRISPR-Cas9 Synthetic Lethal Screening of AML Cell Line Identified Functional Modulators of Etoposide Resistance Predictive of Clinical Outcome in AML Patients. UF College of Pharmacy 34rd Annual Research Showcase. COP Research Showcase Best poster award- Postdoc category.
  5. Gbadamosi M, Shastri V, Hylkema TA, Papageorgiou I, Meshinchi S, Lamba JK. Novel CD33 antibodies reveal therapeutic implications of CD33 splicing variant. UF College of Pharmacy 34rd Annual Research Showcase. Winner of Millard Senior Basic Science Division (1st place oral competition among senior students).
  6. Gbadamosi M, Shastri V, Hylkema TA, Papageorgiou I, Pardo L, Cogle C, Doty A, Loken M, Meshinchi S, Lamba JK. Novel CD33 Antibodies Reveal New Strategies for Advances in CD33 Immunotherapy. University of Florida Health Cancer Center (UFHCC) Symposium. UFHCC Poster Award.

2019

  1. Abdelrahman H. Elsayed, Huiyun Wu, Xueyuan Cao, Susana Raimondi, James Downing, Raul Ribeiro, Tanja Gruber, Rhonda E. Ries, Soheil Meshinchi, Jeffrey E. Rubnitz, Stanley Pounds, Jatinder K Lamba. “A 5-gene Ara-C, Daunorubicin and Etoposide (ADE) Drug Response Score as a Prognostic Tool to Predict AML treatment Outcome”. American Society of Hematology 61st annual meeting and exposition, Orlando, FL. ASH Abstract Achievement Award
  2. Roya Rafiee, Amin Sobh, Abdelrahman H. Elsayed, Abderrahmane Tagmount, Chris D Vulpe and Jatinder K Lamba. “Genome-Scale CRISPR-Cas9 Synthetic Lethal Screening of AML Cell Line Identified Functional Modulators of Etoposide Resistance Predictive of Clinical Outcome in AML Patients”. American Society of Hematology 61st annual meeting and exposition, Orlando, FL. ASH Abstract Achievement Award.
  3. Gbadamosi M, Hylkema TA, Meshinchi S, Lamba JK. Novel CD33 Antibodies Unravel Localization, Biology, and Therapeutic Implications of CD33 Isoforms. American Society of Hematology 61st annual meeting and exposition, Orlando, FL. Oral Presentation at ASH 2019; Minority Graduate Student Abstract Achievement Award.
  4. Gbadamosi M, Elsayed AH, Ries RE, Meshinchi S, Lamba JK. Preliminary LASSO Regression Analysis Identifies Gene Expression Signature Predictive of Clinical Outcomes in Patients Using Gemtuzumab Ozogamicin,. UF College of Pharmacy 32nd Annual Research Showcase. COP Research Showcase Best poster award- Graduate Student category (Ibrahim Dawaas Award for Cancer Research)

2018

  1. Abdelrahman H. Elsayed, Huiyun Wu, Xueyuan Cao, Soheil Meshinchi, Raul Ribeiro, Jeffrey Rubnitz, Stanley Pounds, Jatinder K Lamba. “Integrated Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) Identifies SNPs Associated with Outcome in Pediatric AML”. American Society of Hematology 60th Annual meeting, San Diego, CA, December. ASH Abstract Achievement Award.
  2. Bradley Stockard, Joy Guingab, Timothy Garrett, Stanley Pounds, Jeffrey Rubnitz, Jatinder K Lamba. Metabolomics Profiling Reveals Markers for Chemosensitivity and Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric AML Patients. American Society of Hematology 60th Annual meeting, San Diego, CA, December. ASH Abstract Achievement Award.
  3. Abdelrahman Elsayed, Huiyun Wu, Xueyuan Cao, Susana Raimondi, James Downing, Raul Ribeiro, Tanja Gruber, Jeffrey Rubnitz, Stanley Pounds, Jatinder K Lamba. Pediatric LSC3 (pLSC3) Score Derived from DNMT3B-CD34-GPR56 as a Prognostic Tool to Predict AML Patient Outcome: Results from Two Independent Pediatric AML Cohorts. American Society of Hematology 60th Annual meeting, San Diego, CA, December. ASH Oral Presentation.
  4. Salma A. Bargal, Roya Rafiee, Kristine R Crews, Xueyuan Cao, Jeffrey E Rubnitz, Stanley Pounds and Jatinder K Lamba GWAS for the Identification of Genetic Variants Predictive of Cytarabine In Vitro Sensitivity in Pediatric AML.UF College of Pharmacy 31st Annual Research Showcase. COP Research Showcase Best poster award- Graduate student category.
  5. Abdelrahman H. Elsayed, Huiyun Wu, Xueyuan Cao, Soheil Meshinchi, Raul Ribeiro, Jeffrey Rubnitz, Stanley Pounds, Jatinder K Lamba. Cytarabine Metabolic Pathway SNP Score Predicts Leukemic Cell Intracellular Ara-CTP Levels in Pediatric AML Patients. UF College of Pharmacy 31st Annual Research Showcase. Finalist COP Research showcase oral competition.

2017

  1. Abdelrahman Elsayed, Xueyuan Cao, Kristine R. Crews, Varsha Gandhi, William Plunkett, Jeffrey E. Rubnitz, Raul C. Ribeiro, Stanley B. Pounds, and Jatinder K. Lamba. “Risk Score Generated from Ara-C Metabolic Pathway Predicts Leukemic Cell Intracellular Ara-CTP Levels in AML-97 Pediatric Patients”. American Society of Hematology 59th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. ASH Abstract Achievement Award.
  2. Abdelrahman Elsayed, Xueyuan Cao, Kristine R. Crews, Varsha Gandhi, William Plunkett, Jeffrey E. Rubnitz, Raul C. Ribeiro, Stanley B. Pounds, and Jatinder K. Lamba. “Impact of genetic variants in Ara-C metabolic pathway genes on intracellular Ara-CTP level and DNA synthesis inhibition in AML patients”. UF College of Pharmacy 30th Annual Research Showcase. COP Research Showcase Best poster award- Graduate student category.

2016

  1. Bhise, Neha, Lamba, V, Cao, Xueyuan, Pounds, Stanley, Lamba, Jatinder. Expression of MicroRNAs Predict Response to Cytarabine in Acute Myeloid Leukemia. UF College of Pharmacy 29th Annual Research Showcase. COP Research Showcase Best poster award- Graduate Student category.
  2. Sally Kassem, Emilie J. Bergsma, Jatinder K. Lamba. SNPs as Predictors of Chemo-sensitivity to Cytarabine. UF College of Pharmacy 29th Annual Research Showcase. COP Research Showcase Best poster award- PharmD category.
  3. Lata Chauhan, Richard Aplenc, Maggie Skrypek, Jessica Pollard, Todd A. Alonzo, Y-C Wang, Irwin D. Bernstein, Alan S. Gamis, Soheil Meshinchi, and Jatinder K Lamba. CD33 SNPs as markers for identifying patients likely to benefit from gemtuzumab, ozagomicin-a report from the Children’s Oncology Group. UF College of Pharmacy 29th Annual Research Showcase. COP Research Showcase Best poster award- Postdoc category.