Baskaran Thyagarajan
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Pharmaceutics.
University of Wyoming
United States of America
Biography
Baskaran Thyagarajan, M. Pharm., Ph.D., joined the UW School of Pharmacy faculty at the beginning of the fall 2011 semester as an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics. He was previously a Research Assistant Professor with the Division of Nephrology at the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Medicine in Rochester, New York. Dr. Thyagarajan led the New Drug Discovery Research - Safety Pharmacology group in Ranbaxy Research Labs (Multinational Pharma Giant of India). Dr. Thyagarajan received a Bachelor of Pharmacy (1994) from Madras Medical College in Chennai, India, a Master of Pharmacy (1996) from Banaras Hindu University Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India and a Ph.D. (2001) in pharmacy from Karl-Franzens University of Graz in Austria. Dr. Thyagarajan has numerous publications, abstracts, and presentations and has received several awards for his research.
Research Interest
Molecular mechanisms of neuronal exocytosis and endocytosis Role of TRP channels and lipid microdomains in synaptic transmission Neurodegenerative diseases Muscular dystrophy Botulinum neurotoxin antidotes Magnetic nanospheres as targeted drug delivery carriers
Publications
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Potian JG, Vishwendra Patel, JJ McArdle and B Thyagarajan. The inveterate botulinum neurotoxin A ushers in exoendocytic crypts. The Botulinum Journal 2010. 1(4). 418-430.
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Ho, M, LH Chang, M Pires-Alves, B Thyagarajan, JE Bloom, Z Gu, KK Aberle, SA Teymorian, Y Bannai, JJ McArdle and BA Wilson. Recombinant Botulinum Neurotoxin A Heavy Chain-based Delivery Vehicles for Neuronal Cell Targeting. Protein Engineering Design & Selection (PEDS) Nov. 04. 1-7, 2010
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Allman E, B Thyagarajan B and KW Nehrke. The Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptor in C. elegans. WIREs Membrane Transport and Signaling. 2011
