Virtual Lecture Series Regina Graham, Ph D

On Monday, September 16th at 5:30 PM, faculty member from NSU's Halmos College of Arts & Sciences, Dr. Regina Graham, will be presented a lecture on:
"Advancing Brain Tumor Treatment: Innovative Drug Discovery and Carbon Dot Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery"
After graduating from Stony Brook University, with a degree in biochemistry, Regina Graham worked at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where she investigated the immediate early gene, c-fos and signal transduction pathways which was published in the journal Science. She received her doctorate in 2001 from Tulane University where she studied the role of sensory nerves in ozone-induced lung inflammation. Regina did her postdoctoral work in molecular and cellular pharmacology at the University of Miami where she focused on cardiovascular disease, therapeutic angiogenesis and spearheaded research on a novel breast cancer therapy. She subsequently moved to the department of Neurosurgery at the University of Miami where she developed several glioblastoma stem cell lines and focused on understanding how these cells contributed to therapy resistance and worked toward finding new ways to target this cell population. At Nova Southeastern University, her research focuses on brain tumors and the pediatric cancer, neuroblastoma. She is investigating the potential of natural product analogs and novel compounds to induce cell death and interfere with cancer stem cell signaling pathways. In addition, her research focuses on developing non-toxic carbon dot nanoparticles and their derivatives for imaging and as a nanocarrier for targeted drug delivery.