Dejan S. Nikolic
Research Assistant Professor
Research Interests
- Drug discovery and development from natural products.
- The lab is interested in identifying active ingredients from botanicals used to alleviate menopausal symptoms as well as to investigate their bioavailability, pharmacokinetics and metabolism using in vitro and in vivo model systems. examples plants currently under study are black cohosh, licorice and wild yam.
- The primary technique used in the lab is liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation that include all modern types of mass spectrometers.
At a Glance
- Title Research Assistant Professor
- College Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
- Department Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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