PittPharmacy Research Associate Venkateswaran Chithambaram Pillai, MS (Pharm), PhD, is the recipient of the 2014 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Postdoctoral Fellow award sponsored by Merck. The award was presented to Chithambaram Pillai at the AAPS annual meeting held at San Diego, Calif.
The AAPS Postdoctoral Fellow Awards are given annually to three individuals who have demonstrated excellence in their research work during a postdoctoral training period and show exceptional promise in future contributions to the pharmaceutical sciences. The award is based on the scientific merits of abstract submission to the 2014 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition, research accomplishments, and recommendations of mentoring scientists.
From Chithambaram Pillai’s notification letter Marilyn E. Morris, PhD, president, is quoted “……the competition for this honor is quite keen each year it is presented. The continuing high quality of your work and its impact was the basis upon which you were selected.”
Chithambaram Pillai’s research is focused on improving drug therapy in various patient populations by understanding the absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, safety and efficacy of drugs. The specific population of patients that he has been working with includes patients with HIV, organ transplantation, pregnancy and breast cancer. These patient populations use a large number of drugs and there is limited data on optimal use of various drugs in these patient populations.
Professor Raman Venkataramanan, PhD is Chithambaram Pillai’s faculty mentor.
