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Dr. Katakam lab photo (from left to right): Dr. Siva Sakamuri (Postdoctoral Fellow), Wesley Evans (PhD Student in Neuroscience), Monica Dholakia (Master’s Student in Pharmacology), Venkata ‘Ram’ Sure (PhD Student in Pharmacology), Christen Brown (Master’s Student in Pharmacology), Sufen Zhen (Laboratory Assistant), Jared Sperling (Master’s Student in Pharmacology), Mohummed Kazmi (Undergraduate Student). Not pictured: Daniel Gottlieb (Undergraduate Student) and Brooke Hamling (PhD Student in Neuroscience)
Boyd Rorabaugh, PhD Dr. Boyd Rorabaugh of Ohio Northern University received a National Institutes of Health/NHLBI R15 AREA Award to study the impact of an animal model of posttraumatic stress disorder on the ischemic heart. Dr. Rorabaugh is a faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences at the Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy. He and his team will investigate the effect of an animal model of posttraumatic stress disorder on myocardial ischemic injury. Rorabaugh said “our preliminary data suggest that people who have a heart attack and also have PTSD may be at risk for more extensive myocardial ischemic injury than people who have a heart attack and do not have PTSD. We are trying to understand the mechanism by which PTSD may worsen the extent of ischemic injury. A second goal is to determine whether drugs that are clinically used to treat the psychological symptoms of PTSD can reverse this detrimental cardiac effect. The final goal of the project addresses the fact that traumatized women are more likely to develop PTSD
than traumatized men. We are trying to understand why females are more susceptible.” This work is an interdisciplinary project between Rorabaugh and psychologist Dr. Phillip Zoladz. As a new principal investigator of an R15 award, Dr. Rorabaugh has already spearheaded efforts to provide research opportunities for undergraduate students. Some of his former undergraduate research students
Dr. Rorabaugh's lab members: (Clockwise from Left to Right) Dr. Boyd Rorabaugh, (Ohio Northern University College of Pharmacy), Thorne Stoopes (Ohio Northern University College of Pharmacy, PharmD student), Dr. Phillip Zoladz (Ohio Northern University Department of Psychology, Co-investigator), Sarah Hebble (Ohio Northern University College of Pharmacy, PharmD student), and Sarah Seeley (Ohio Northern University College of Pharmacy, Research Technician)
March 2017 • The Pharmacologist