Shankar Munusamy

Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Pharmaceutical & Admin. Sciences
Drake University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
United States of America

Doctor Toxicology
Biography

"Dr. Shankar received his BPharm from Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, Tamilnadu (India) in 2001, a MSc (Pharmacology and Toxicology) from the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (India) in 2001 and his PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (USA) in 2008. He worked an Instructor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi. Prior to this, Dr. Shankar was a post-doctoral fellow at the same institution. He has also served as a Lecturer at Pallavan Pharmacy College (India). Dr. Shankar has published 7 peer-reviewed papers, 11 research abstracts, 11 research posters and has 14 oral research presentations to his credit. Over the past ten years, he has been active on various research projects involving whole organ, animal and cell culture models to understand the pathophysiological mechanisms in various disease states such as stroke, diabetes, and obesity. "

Research Intrest

Diabetic Nephropathy, Obesity, Kidney, ER Stress, Renal Cell Carcinoma

List of Publications
El Gamal H, Munusamy S (2017) Aldose Reductase as a Drug Target for Treatment of Diabetic Nephropathy: Promises and Challenges. Protein Peptide Lett 24: 71-77.
Allouch S, Munusamy S (2017) Metformin Attenuates Albumin-induced Alterations in Renal Tubular Cells In Vitro. J Cell Physiol 9999:1–12.
Hammad A, Ravindran S, Khalil A, Munusamy S (2017) Structure-Activity Relationship of Piperine and its Synthetic Amide Analogs For Therapeutic Potential To Prevent Experimentally-induced ER Stress In Vitro. Cell Stress Chaperone 22: 417-428.