KK Viswanadham PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences

University of British Columbia

Dr. Viswanadham is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Pharmacuetical Sciences, in Dr. Shyh-Dar Li's lab. His current research interests relate to design and synthesis of endogenous peptide-based novel entities, and understating their mechanisms of action on opioid receptors in central and peripheral nervous systems. Currently, he is investigating the behavioural effects (i.e. motor coordination balance, breathing depression, wthdrawal effects, conditioned rewarding effect, and opiate dependence) in mice after oral and intranasal delivery of liposome preparations of several synthesized novel entities.

Reserch Keywords: Drug development, Synthesis, Opioids, Pulmonary delivery of neuropeptides to brain as pain therapeutics, Mouse behavioral studies

Founding Partners

BC Pain Research Network

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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