Yash Mehta
Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Biography
Yash Mehta completed his Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) degree from Gujarat Technological University, Gujarat, India in 2019. He joined the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences as a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student in August of 2020, and is presently working in the laboratory of Dr. Abraham Al-Ahmad with the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Education:
- BPharm: Gujarat Technological University, Gujarat, India, 2019
Research Interests:
Drug Discovery and Development; Antibody Drug Conjugates; Molecular Cancer Biology; Immunology.
Publications:
- Pervaiz Iqra, Mehta Yash, Kinzie Sherill, Dhavalkumar Patel , Abraham J. Al-Ahmad. Ketone bodies supplementation restores the barrier function, induces a metabolic switch, and elicits beta-hydroxybutyrate diffusion across a monolayer of iPSC-derived brain microvascular endothelial cells. Microvascular Research. 150 (2023) 104585. Epub ahead of print.
Presentations:
- Yash Mehta, Dhavalkumar Patel, Iqra Pervaiz; Abraham Al Ahmad. An LC-MS-based high throughput confirmative analysis of Glucose Transporter 1 (GLUT1) in human brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMECs). American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) 71st Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Houston, TX; June 2023.
Seminars:
- 09/21/2022 “A monoclonal antibody-human-β-glucuronidase conjugate as an activator of prodrug monomethyl auristatin F-glucuronide for site-specific treatment of colorectal cancer” [Oral Qualifying Exam, public presentation counted as Seminar credit]
- 03/18/2022 “A Strategy to Enhance Potency of Antibody Drug Conjugates for the Treatment of Cancer with Antigenic Heterogeneity”
Memberships:
- Graduate Student Association in Amarillo (GSAA), TTUHSC – President, 2023-2024.
- Graduate Student Association in Amarillo (GSAA), TTUHSC – Vice-President, 2022-2023.
- American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) TTUHSC Student Chapter – Treasurer/Secretary, 2021-2022.
- Graduate Student Association in Amarillo (GSAA), TTUHSC – Historian, 2021-2022.
- American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), 2021-present.
- American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) TTUHSC Student Chapter, 2021-present.
- Graduate Student Association in Amarillo (GSAA), TTUHSC, 2021-present.