Professional Profile
Taravat Ghafourian, Pharm.D., Ph.D., FHEA
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Associate Professor Dept: Pharmaceutical Sciences Phone: 954-262-1876 Email: tghafour@nova.edu Campus: Fort Lauderdale |
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| Dr Taravat Ghafourian, PhD, PharmD, FHEA is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. She specializes in drug discovery and drug delivery, with an established record in the prediction of pharmacological and toxicological properties of drug candidates and ADME/tox using molecular modeling, machine learning, and in-vitro assessments of mitochondrial respiration.
She obtained her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Liverpool John Moores University in 1997 and was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the EU (Fifth framework programme) where she developed models to estimate the endocrine disruption potential of environmental pollutant compounds. Before joining NSU in 2022, she held academic positions at various prestigious universities in the United Kingdom since 2001, including the University of Kent (11 years), the University of Sussex (5 years), and the University of Bedfordshire (2 years). She has supervised many PhD and PharmD students and led various research projects. Dr Ghafourian is the Associate Editor of Springer’s Molecular Diversity, and an editorial board member of several other peer-reviewed journals. Most recently, her research has focused on the application of machine learning to the discovery of biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease, prediction of mental health-related drug effects and side effects, and modeling of mitochondrial function. |
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