Durga Puro
Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Biography
Durga Puro completed her Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPharm) degree from C. U. Shah College of Pharmacy, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India in 2014, and her Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree from the same school in 2016. She completed her Master of Science (MS) degree in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology from the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, in 2020. She joined the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences as a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student in August of 2021, and is presently working in the laboratory of Dr. Ming-Hai Wang with the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences on our Amarillo campus.
Education:
- MS: Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2020.
- MPharm: C. U. Shah College of Pharmacy, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 2016.
- BPharm: C. U. Shah College of Pharmacy, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 2014.
Research Interests:
Drug delivery systems, including antibody drug conjugates and nanocarriers; cancer biology and immunotherapy.
Publications:
Before Admission to GPPS:
- Anjali Pandya, Rajani Athawale, Durga Puro and Geeta Bhagwat. Design and Evaluation of Long Acting Biodegradable PLGA Microspheres for Ocular Drug Delivery. Nanoscience & Nanotechnology-Asia. 2021 Feb 1; 11(1):53-66. Epub 2019 Dec 23.
- Mayilsamy K, Markoutsa E, Das M, Chopade P, Puro D, Kumar A, Gulick D, Willing AE, Mohapatra SS, Mohapatra S. Treatment with shCCL20-CCR6 nanodendriplexes and human mesenchymal stem cell therapy improves pathology in mice with repeated traumatic brain injury. Nanomedicine. 2020 Oct; 29:102247. Epub 2020 Jun 26. PMID: 32599163.
- Durga Puro, Rajani Athawale and Anjali Pandya. Design, Optimization and Characterization of Nanostructured Lipid Carriers of Raloxifene Hydrochloride for Transdermal Delivery. Nanoscience & Nanotechnology-Asia. 2020; 10(1). Epub 2018 Nov 6.
Presentations:
Before Admission to GPPS:
- Durga Puro, Anjali Pandya, Rajani Athawale. Design and Evaluation of Nanostructured Lipid Carriers-Based Drug Delivery System of BCS Class II Drug. 15th International Symposium of Controlled Release Society – Indian Chapter at Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; February 2018.
- Durga Puro, Yamini Shende, Anjali Pandya, Rajani Athawale. Design and Evaluation of a Novel Topical Drug Delivery System for an Antifungal Agent. 15th International Symposium of Controlled Release Society – Indian Chapter at Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; February 2018.
Seminars:
- 05/05/2023 "Evaluating Efficacy of Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) Targeting Distinct Epitopes on RON Receptor as a Combination Therapy for Cancer"
Memberships:
- Graduate Student Association in Amarillo (GSAA), TTUHSC – Secretary, 2023-2024.
- Graduate Student Association in Amarillo (GSAA), TTUHSC – Historian, 2022-2023.
- Graduate Student Association in Amarillo (GSAA), TTUHSC, 2021-present.
- International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM), 2017-present.