CURRICILUM VITAE

Personal data:
Name:

Animikh Ray

Address:

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.edu

Academic training:
Name of school
Sardar Patel University
Anand, India
University of Utkal,
Bhubaneswar, India

Year Graduated
2005

Degree
B.S.

2007

M.S.

Major
Microbiology
(Biochemistry Minor)
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 2010
2. Instructor- Pharmaceutics I Laboratory-Fall 2010
3. Teaching assistant-Pharmaceutics 2 (Pharm 7203- lecture)-spring 2011
4. Instructor-Pharmaceutics II laboratory
5. Teaching assistant- Advances in drug therapy (Pharm 7389)-fall 2012,
6. Teaching assistant- Advances in drug therapy (Pharm 7389)-Fall 2013
7. Teaching assistant- Pharmacokinetcs and Biopharmaceutics (Pharm 7303)- spring2013
8. Teaching assistant- Pharmacokinetcs and Biopharmaceutics (Pharm 7303) ,spring2014
9. Teaching Assistant- Foundation in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharm 5690)
10. Tutor- penn valley community college-Fall 2012
Certificates earned
1. Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials-Johns Hopkins University

2. Instructional Methods in Health Professions Education- University of Michigan

3. Technology Entrepreneurship- Stanford University
Committees served/Administrative experience
1. 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 MissouriKansas 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)2011-2012Duties/responsibilities1) 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 Chapters

1. 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, 2010
Traineeship:
1. May 2006 - July 2006
Summer-Trainee at Department of Pathology, Calcutta medical research Institute
hospital, Kolkata, India.
2. May 2007 - July 2007
M.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

Professional References:
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