Seminars

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Seminar Series  2026 spring (Tuesdays, 8:45am – 9:45am, Biomed II, 1^st floor, Rayford Auditorium)

Director: Dr. Ricky Leung

Date	Speaker		Title	Department Host
January 6	William Lu, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, UAMS		Impacts of mitochondrial DNA mutations on T cell health, implications in cancer immunotherapy and beyond	Leung’s lab
January 13	Joseph Holthoff MD PhD Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, UAMS		Reverse Translation: From Bedside to Bench	Rusch’s lab
January 20	Cancelled
January 27	Sergio Cortes, PhD Postdoc fellow		Environmental Impact on Male Fertility: Epididymal Contribution in Two Generations	Leung’s lab
February 3	Behjatolah Karbassi, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, UAMS		Targeting Macrophage SR-A to Potentiate Effector Immunity in Breast Cancer	Leung’s lab
February 10	Shuk-Mei Ho, PhD Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UAMS		Persistent Health Alterations in Veterans with Burn Pit Exposure	Ho’s lab
February 17	Ha-neui Kim, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Musculoskeletal Disease Research and Center for Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences,		Reprogramming of Osteoclast Behavior & Metabolism During Skeletal Aging	Kim’s lab
February 24	HongDuck Yun PhD, Postdoc fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UAMS		ATF2 Enhances the Antioxidant Function of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Asthma	Kim’s lab
March 3	William Fantegrossi, PhD, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UAMS		Psychedelics as novel treatments for opioid use disorder: preclinical studies	Fantegrossi’s lab
March 10	Student Research Day		No Seminar
March 17	Zhou Wang, PhD Professor of Urology, UPMC Chair in Urological Research Director of Urological Research, Department of Pathology and Pharmacology; University of Pittsburgh		TBA	Ho’s lab
March 23-27	Holiday – Spring Break		No Seminar
March 31	Dinesh Bhattarai PhD, Instructor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UAMS		TBA	Parajuli’s lab
April 7	Daniel R. Saban, PhD Joseph AC Wadsworth Distinguished Professor Departments of Ophthalmology, Integrative Immunology, and Pathology, Duke University		TBA	Fouda’s lab
April 14	Alberto Losada PhD, Postdoc fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UAMS		TBA	Ho’s lab
April 21	Amod Sharma PhD, Postdoc fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UAMS		TBA	Parajuli’s lab
April 28	Rami Shahror PhD, Postdoc fellow, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, UAMS		TBA	Fouda’s lab
May 5	Brendan Frett, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Science, College of Pharmacy		TBA	Kim’s lab