2026

September

• Dhaval and Heba published their paper in collaboration with Bickel lab “Semaglutide and Tirzepatide Suppress Hepatic Fatty Acid Uptake and Fatty Acid β-Oxidation in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity Mice” Journal of Proteome Research.

August

•  Mahmoud is selected among 2026 SUD SPRINT cohort funded by NIDA and Babson college.   View Here 
• Noha presented her research at the ACS fall meeting in Chicago.

July

• Harrison published his review article “Targeting druggable kinases in neuropathic pain” in NPJ Drug Discovery.

May

• Mahmoud is awarded the Cardiovascular Pharmacology Early Career Award American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics in Minnesota, MN.

April

• Dhaval passed his PhD defense successfully. Congrats Dr. Patel!
• Komal, Syed, and Simon presented their work at Amarillo Research Symposium.
• Harrison delivered oral presentation and received outstanding oral presentation awards at Amarillo Research Symposium.

March

• Sumaih passed her PhD defense successfully. Congrats Dr. Zoubi!
• Harrison is awarded the travel award to present at Behavior, Biology, and Chemistry conference in San Antonio, TX.

February

• Mahmoud is invited as a speaker at Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics department, TTUHSC, Lubbock, TX.
• Mahmoud is invited as a Protegee for the second time at TAMEST, San Antonio, TX.

January

• Justin published his review article ““Mitigating loss of lean muscle in GLP-1 and dual GLP-1/GIP agonists: Pipeline opportunities and limitations” in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Basis of Disease.
• Noha joined us as a postdoctoral fellow coming from Baylor. Welcome on board!
• Our lab secured two intramural funds supported by Rural Cancer Collaborative, TTUHSC in collaboration with German and Srivastava labs.

November

• Harrison passed his qualifying exam. Good job!
• Mahmoud delivers at Advanced Drug Discovery and Development, virtual | SESSION II: Drug target identification and validation.

October

• Mahmoud delivers at late breaking basic science, American Heart association meeting, Chicago, IL.
• Mahmoud is invited as a distinguished speaker at 7th annual Abilene Interdisciplinary Symposium in Cancer and Biomedical Research.
• Mahmoud is invited as a speaker at the 8th International Conference on Drug Discovery and Lead Optimization, Boston, MA.
• Mahmoud is invited as a speaker at Sarver Heart Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
• Mahmoud is selected to participate in the NIH Center for Early Career Reviewer Program to serve on the molecular and cellular neuropharmacology (MCNP) study section. 

August

• Mahmoud is awarded GSBS Outstanding Pharmaceutical Sciences Teacher Award, TTUHSC.

May

• Heba is awarded Early Career Scientist Abstract Award by the  Annual Meeting of ASPET. Congratulations, Heba!
• Mahmoud is invited as a panelist  Journals Workshop: Opening the Blinds on the editorial and review process,  American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), Washington, DC.
• Mahmoud is invited to attend “Second PURPOSE for early-career Pain Researchers”, NIH meeting, MD.

April 

• Mahmoud delivers a lecture entitled as: “Drugging the Undruggable for Cardiac Regeneration” at Egypt Scholars, inc.   View here
• Our Nature cardiovascular story is featured in the news!  View here
• Heba, Harrison, and Syed deliver oral presentations at Amarillo Research Symposium.
• Mahmoud is invited as a  speaker at Texas Center for Comparative Cancer Research (TC3R) webinar series, Amarillo, TX.

 March

• Harrison and Syed present their work at 2024 ACS spring meeting in New Orleans, LA.
• Syed is awarded the second place for Reddy Family foundation award at Student Research Week Poster Competition held in Lubbock. Congratulations, Syed!
• Mahmoud published his drug-induced heart regeneration story in nature cardiovascular research! Mahmoud Salama Ahmed, Ngoc Uyen Nhi Nguyen, Yuji Nakada, Ching-Cheng Hsu, Ayman Farag, Nicholas T Lam, Ping Wang, Suwannee Thet, Ivan Menendez-Montes,   Waleed M Elhelaly, Xi Lou, Ilaria Secco, Mateusz Tomczyk, Lorena Zentilin, Jimin Pei, Miao Cui, Matthieu Dos Santos, Xiaoye Liu, Yan Liu, David Zaha, Gregory Walcott, Diana R Tomchick, Chao Xing, Cheng Cheng Zhang, Nick V Grishin, Mauro Giacca, Jianyi Zhang, Hesham A Sadek “Identification of FDA-Approved Drugs That Induce Heart Regeneration in Mammals” Nat Cardiovasc Res. 3, 372–388, 2024.

 January

• Mahmoud is selected as a finalist for Avenir award offered by NIDA/NIH.
• Our group files the first patent entitled as: “Mahmoud Salama Ahmed, Heba Ewida, Prasanth Chelikani. Compositions and methods for treating diet-induced obesity and associated metabolic disorders. US Patent No. 63/620,574.”