Sumaiya Nahid

Highly motivated PhD candidate in the medicinal chemistry track of PhD in pharmaceutical science with extensive research skills, NIH funded project management skills, and a focus on small molecule designing, synthesis, characterization and evaluation in Prof. Dr. Corey Hopkins’s lab of UNMC.

· Sigma-1 and D4 modulators - provisional patent application. UNeMed Docket: 24071P, Grant No R01 NS119266 awarded by the National Institutes of Health.

• Oral, Discovery of GIRK ½ Activators as Non-opioid Analgesics, 3rd ADDC/ASPET Academic Drug Discovery Colloquium, 05/19/24, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA
• Three-minute thesis presentation, GIRK ½ activators as pain therapeutics: An alternative to combat opioid epidemic, College of Pharmacy, UNMC, 09/15/XX
• Presentation, Discovery, synthesis, and characterization of acetamide ether series as novel GIRK1/2 potassium channel activators for pain treatment, Joint Midwest-Great Lakes Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (MWGLRM 2023), 10/19/23
• Poster, Screening of DipeptidylPeptidase-4 Inhibition & Glucokinase Activation Potentials via Computational Approach in the Isolated Compounds of Syzigium cumini Seeds, Pharma Fest, 06/XX/22, Department of Pharmacy, University of Science and Technology Chittagong (USTC), Bangladesh
• Poster, Designing of novel analogs from the best-fitted compounds of Streblus asper for the impediment of NF-κB Signaling Pathway and proteasome to induce apoptosis, The 1st International BioDesign Research Conference, 12/01/20 - 12/18/20, Stanford University, USA
• Poster, Searching of Farnesyltransferase and Geranylgeranyl transferase inhibitors through computational analysis, 1st National Conference on Pharmaceutical Science 2020, XX/XX/20, BGC Trust University, Bangladesh
• Poster, Matrix Metalloproteinase1 Inhibitors from Allium sativum (Garlic) to Prevent Metastasis: A Computational Approach, BSBMB Conference, 2019, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh
• Poster, Cardio-and hepato-protective potential of methanolic extract of Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels seeds: A diabetic rat model study, 4th National Conference on Natural Science & Technology, 2017, Asian University for Women (AUW), Chittagong, Bangladesh

• Chair, American Association of Pharmaceutical Science, AAPS-UNMC, May 2024, Present
• Chair-Elect, American Association of Pharmaceutical Science, AAPS-UNMC, May 2023, May 2024
• International Ambassador, International Student Association (ISA), UNMC, 2021
• Organizer, Department of Pharmacy, University of Science and Technology Chittagong (USTC), 2016, 2021

• Academic Excellence Award in Pharmacy Education, USTC, Bangladesh, 2015
• Research grants by 1st call from USTC central Research Cell (URC), USTC, Bangladesh, 2019
• Presentation Award at 1st National Conference on Pharmaceutical Science, BGC Trust University, Bangladesh, 2020
• Presentation Award for three minutes thesis presentation, AAPS UNMC student chapter, 2023
• Schrodinger Scholarship for High-throughput virtual screening for hit finding & evaluation course (2024)

• PDE4 and Neurological Disorders: A Promising Frontier in Neuropharmacology

Sumaiya Nahida,#, Saeedeh Saeedia,#, and Corey R. Hopkinsa,b,* (Invited Manuscript Submitted)

• Further SAR, Biological Evaluation, and Metabolite ID of GIRK1/2 Activators

Sumaiya Nahida, Fahad Rahmana, Yu Dub, Brittany D. Spitznagelb, Sandeep K. Singhc, Daryl J. Murryc, C. David Weaverb, and Corey R. Hopkinsa,d,* (Manuscript in preparation)

• Delivery of gene editing therapeutics, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 10/07/23, Kevadiya BD et al.
• The Altered Efficacy of Traditional Antidiabetic Formulations in Chittagong Division: Metformin Admixing, Trop J Nat Prod Res, 2021, Nahid S, Saha T, Amin R, Rahman MDA, Thousif AKMD, Chowdhury AT, Sadiq
• Molecular docking and ADME/T analysis for identification of novel potential COX inhibitors of some isolated compounds from Clausena lansium for analgesic treatment, The Pharma Innovation Journal, 09/01/17, Pathak A, Nahid S et al.MDAS, Faroque ABM
• Cardio-and hepato-protective potential of methanolic extract of Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels seeds: A diabetic rat model study, Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 02/28/17, Nahid S, Mazumder K, Rahman Z, Islam S, Rashid MH, Kerr PG
• In silico molecular docking analysis of isolated compounds of Ocimum sanctum against two related targets to diabetes, The Pharma Innovation Journal, 09/01/17, Pathak A, Nahid S et al.

· Aforz S, Koli S A, Nahid S*. Designing of novel analogs from the best-fitted compounds of

Streblus asper for the impediment of NF-κB Signaling Pathway and proteasome to induce apoptosis. The1st International BioDesign Research Conference [Internet], 2020.

· Banik P, Nahid S*. Evaluation of Effectiveness of Anti-diabetic Folk Medicines. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Sciences and Technology (ICNST’18) [Internet].

Norman Gardens QLD 4701: i-Lab Australia Publishing Group; 2018 [cited 27 February 2020]. p. 88-91.

Primary Project: Design, synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of GIRK 1/2 activators with desired potency and ADME properties as a potential treatment for pain as opioid alternatives.

Secondary Project: Design, synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of D4 and Sigma-1 modulators.