News

May 31, 2024: Our collaborative work with Dr. Kandasamy from CSU East Bay and Dr. Hammock from UC Davis titled Quinolinyl-based multitarget-directed ligands with soluble epoxide hydrolase and fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitory activities: Synthetic studies and pharmacological evaluations is published in Heliyon! Read the full article here.

May 23, 2024: Several students from our lab graduated this year: two graduate students, Jeannes Angelia and Xiaohui Weng, and undergraduate students, Faye Yun (who will continue her education at the USC doctoral program), Heyam Zayed, Melissa Valenzuela, Jasmine Chi, Elijah Baybay and Allen Nguyen. Congratulations! 

May 19, 2024: This year's American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics held it's annual meeting in Arlington, VA. This was an excellent opportunity to present the results from our lab and to meet with our collaborator, Dr. Ram Kandasamy from CSU East Bay. 

May 14, 2024: In collaboration with Dr. Amini and Dr. Baghaei we published a review titled Harnessing exosomes in theranostic applications: advancements and insights in gastrointestinal cancer research in the journal Discover Oncology. Read the full article here.

April 9, 2024: Three students from the Pecic lab attended the National Conference on Undergraduate Research that took place at Long Beach, April 8-10, 2024. Anesa, Leah and Amanda successfully presented their research at the poster session. Congratulations!

March 28, 2024: A master student Xiaohui Weng successfully defended her thesis titled Progressing Glioblastoma Treatment: From Target Identification to Drug Design. Congratulations, Xiaohui!

March 19, 2024: Seven faculty and eight students from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry attended and presented at the ACS Meeting in New Orleans. Great time, great food and amazing talks!

February 9, 2024: Our novel approach to design non-addictive therapeutics for the treatment of chronic pain was featured at CSUF News! Read the whole article here.

January 12, 2024: Faye and Leah presented their poster at the annual CSUBiotech Symposium in San Jose. Dr. Pecic also presented results from his CURE-based Medicinal Chemistry Lab.

January 8, 2024: We just published a work in the journal Results in Chemistry titled:"One-step microwave enhanced synthesis, biological evaluation, and molecular modeling investigations of donepezil analogs as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors". This work was mainly done by 8 students that were part of the CURE Chem 467 - Medicinal Chemistry lab. Read the whole publication here.  

November 16, 2023: This year the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) was held in Phoenix, Arizona from November 15-18, and Faye presented her research. Congrats Faye! 

We also discussed our NIH-funded project with many peers and had a joint lab meeting with our collaborator Dr. Ram Kandasamy from CSU East Bay.

November 8, 2023: It was great to present our reserach at the International Forum on Research Excellence (IFoRE) held in the Long Beach Conventional Center. This was also an opportunity to catch up with collaborators and friends from AAAS PD.

November 2, 2023: We are happy to share our recent review on Rhabdomyosarcoma: Current Therapy, Challenges, and Future Approaches to Treatment Strategies that we published in the journal Cancers. This significant work included several international experts in the area, and we are happy being a part of this team. You can read the whole publication here. 

October 26, 2023: Xiaohui presented her poser at 2023 ACS Southeastern Regional Meeting in Durham, NC. Congratulations!

October 13, 2023: Chemistry and Biochemistry Department held its annual Alumni Night event at Bootleggers in Fullerton. Several members of Pecic lab were there and we had a wonderful time!