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Personal data:Name: Animikh RayAddress: Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences School of Pharmacy University of Missouri-Kansas City 2464 Charlotte Street Kansas City, MO 64108

Phone: 816-813-1795 E-mail: ar976@mail.umkc.eduAcademic training:Name of schoolYear Graduated Degree Major

Sardar Patel University Anand, India2005B.S.Microbiology (Biochemistry Minor)

University of Utkal, Bhubaneswar, India2007M.S.Biotechnology

Advisor: Dr. Ashim K Mitra, Professor and chair, Division of Pharmaceutical sciences, School of Pharmacy, UMKC. Dissertation Title: Modification of NLS peptide for targeted drug delivery.Teaching Experience:1. Teaching assistant-Pharmaceutics 1 (Pharm 7202- lecture)-Fall 20102. Instructor- Pharmaceutics I Laboratory-Fall 20103. Teaching assistant-Pharmaceutics 2 (Pharm 7203- lecture)-spring 20114. Instructor-Pharmaceutics II laboratory5. Teaching assistant- Advances in drug therapy (Pharm 7389)-fall 2012,6. Teaching assistant- Advances in drug therapy (Pharm 7389)-Fall 20137. Teaching assistant- Pharmacokinetcs and Biopharmaceutics (Pharm 7303)- spring20138. Teaching assistant- Pharmacokinetcs and Biopharmaceutics (Pharm 7303) ,spring20149. Teaching Assistant- Foundation in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharm 5690)10. Tutor- penn valley community college-Fall 2012

Certificates earned1. Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials-Johns Hopkins University2. Instructional Methods in Health Professions Education- University of Michigan3. Technology Entrepreneurship- Stanford University

Committees served/Administrative experience1. Graduate Program Committee (GPC), School of Pharmacy- Responsible for approval and development of Graduate courses and curriculum development, approval of Plans of study for interdisciplinary PhD students, at the school of Pharmacy.University of Missouri-Kansas City.

2. Interdisciplinary doctoral Student Council- Served as secretary, responsible for serving Interdisciplinary PhD students on campus including approval of travel grants and organizing lectures and workshops related to interdisciplinary PhD.

3. American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences (AAPS) Targeted drug delivery and Prdrugs Focus Group Steering Committee- Responsible for organizing webinars year round, events at AAPS national conventions, liaso with other focus groups like Transporters focus group.

4. Student activity Fee Council- Served as representative of Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council, responsible for advising chancellor on allocation of funds to campus organizations. Total funds allocated per academic year- USD 10 million.

5. Election director, UMKC Student Government Association(SGA)2011-2012-Duties/responsibilities-1) The Election Director shall be the Chair of the SGA Election Board.2) The Election Director will be charged with the operation of elections as fully set out in the Election Code presented in the SGA Bylaws.It is the duty of the Election Board to advertise, conduct candidate filing for, establish and maintain polling places for, and tally and certify to the Student Senate the results of all SGA elections, student referenda, and constitutional changes requiring a student body vote.

Membership of Professional organizations and Societies:

1. American Association for Pharmaceutical Sciences (AAPS) -2011-present

2. Association for research in Vision and ophthalmology-2010-2012

Publications:Book Chapters1. Barot M, Gokulgandhi MR, Ray A, Mitra AK., Nanofiber, Mitra AK, Lee, CH, Cheng K., (Editors) Advanced Drug Delivery, Wiley & Sons (Publisher), New York, NY, (Chapter 11) 2013

2. Ray A, Cholkar K, Wang Z, Mitra AK., Characterization of Ocular Transporters, Mitra AK, (Editor) Ocular Transporters and Receptors: Their Role in Drug Delivery, Woodhead Publishing Ltd. (Publisher), Cambridge, UK, ISBN 1907568867, 9781907568862 (Chapter 3) 2013

3.Cholkar K, Ray A, Agrahari V, Pal D, Mitra AK., Transporters and Receptors in the Anterior Segment of the Eye, Mitra AK, (Editor) Ocular Transporters and Receptors: Their Role in Drug Delivery, Woodhead Publishing Ltd. (Publisher), Cambridge, UK, ISBN 1907568867, 9781907568862

4 .Boddu SHS, Menees AL, Ray A, Mitra AK, A Brief Overview of Ocular Anatomy and Physiology, (Chap 1) E-Book: Mitra AK. (Editor), Treatise on Ocular Drug Delivery, Bentham Science Publishers, Saif Zone, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2013

Peer-reviewed articles

Abstracts: 1.A. Ray, V. Kabra, R. Vaishya, A. Mitra, Modification of Adenoviral Nuclear Localization Signal for Efficient Nanoparticle Delivery in Retinoblastoma, AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition, San AntonioTX, [M1085] October 16, 2013

2.. A. Ray, V. Kabra, R. Vaishya, A. Mitra, Modification of Adenoviral Nuclear Localization Signal for Efficient Nanoparticle Delivery in Retinoblastoma, AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition, Chicago, IL, [T3244] October 16, 2012

3. Nilay Thakkar, Pradeep Karla, Animikh Ray, Ramya Vadlapatla, Dhanajay Pal, Ashim Mitra, The Mechanism of Nucleotide Drug Efflux by Human Corneal Epithelial Cells, AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition, Los Angeles, CA, 2009

4. Vitreal Pharmacokinetics of Peptide Transporter Targeted Prodrugs of Ganciclovir in Conscious Animals. A. Ray, S.H.S. Boddu, A.K. Mitra, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Missouri at Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Sunday, May 2, 2010 11:15 AM - 1:00 PM 831/D1043

5. Mechanism of Nucleotide Drug Efflux by Human Corneal Epithelial Cells, N.R. Thakkar, P.K. Karla, A. Ray, R. Vadlapatla, D. Pal, A.K. Mitra. Pharmacy, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO., 4616/D819, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May 6, 2009

6. Synthesis, characterization and LC-MS/MS method development for novel ester linked doxorubicin prodrugs in the treatment of breast cancer, Earla R, Earla R, Cholkar K, Ray A, Mitra AK., UMKC Health Sciences Student Research Summit, April 21, 2010Traineeship: 1. May 2006 - July 2006 Summer-Trainee at Department of Pathology, Calcutta medical research Institute hospital, Kolkata, India.

2. May 2007 - July 2007M.Sc. Final project work at Department of Pathology, Calcutta Medical Research Institute Hospital, Kolkata, India.Topic of project-effect of Beta-lactamase antibiotics on nosocomial infection. 3. May2011 Certified tutor- literacy Kansas City

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