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Asha Suryanarayanan, PhD, FPGEC

Clinical Associate Professor, School of Health Professions
Chemical Hygiene Officer
Co-Director of Academic Education for the Master of Physician Assistant Studies (MSPAS) Program

Asha Suryanarayanan, PhD

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Pharmacology and Toxicology Center 241

Phone

215-596-8675
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Dr. Suryanarayanan (Dr. Sury) is a pharmacologist with over 13 years of teaching, research and curriculum design experience in BS Pharmacology-Toxicology, PhD and Pharm D programs. Dr. Sury has carried out research in the areas of alcohol use disorder and breast cancer, with a focus on the role of ion channels. Dr. Sury’s research has been funded by the Pennsylvania Dept of Health. She is the recipient of a recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded R15 research grant in collaboration with Dr. Mercier at the Dept of Pharmaceutical Sciences, SJU. This research focuses on studying the role of GABA type A ion channels in breast cancer progression.

    • PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
    • BPharm, University of Mumbai, India

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    1. Bundy J, Shaw J, Hammel M, Nguyen J, Robbins C, Mercier I and Suryanarayanan A#. Role of β3 subunit of the GABA type A receptor in triple negative breast cancer proliferation, migration, and cell cycle progression. Cell cycle, 2024. PMID: 38623967, PMCID: PMC11174043 # Corresponding author.
    2. Bundy J, Ahmed Y, Weller S, Nguyen J ,Shaw J, Mercier I and Suryanarayanan A#. GABA type A receptors expressed in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells mediate chloride ion flux. Front Pharmacol 2024. PMID: 39469630; PMCID: PMC11513581.# Corresponding author.
    3. DeCristofano L, Decker S, Schulte MK and Suryanarayanan A#. Desformylflustrabromine (dFBr), a positive allosteric modulator of the α4β2 nicotinic receptor modulates the hypnotic response to ethanol. Alcohol, 2021. Feb 27; S0741-8329(21)00030-6. PMID: 33652092 # Corresponding author
    4. Decker S, Davis G, Vahora I, Vukovic A, Patel P and Suryanarayanan A#. “Desformylflustrabromine (dFBr), a positive allosteric modulator of α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors decreases voluntary ethanol consumption and preference in male and female Sprague-Dawley rats” PLoS One, 2022 Sep 9; 17(9):e0273715. PMID: 36084045 # Corresponding author
    5. Suryanarayanan, A#, Carter JM, Landin JD, Morrow AL, Werner DF, Spigelman I. Role of interleukin-10 (IL-10) in regulation of GABAergic transmission and acute response to ethanol. Neuropharmacology, 2016. 107: p. 181-188. PMID: 27016017 # Corresponding author
    • Ion channels and cancer
    • Alcohol use disorder
    • Neuroimmune modulation of GABAergic function