Organic synthesis

Education

• Postdoctoral, University of California, San Francisco, 2002-03
• Postdoctoral, University of Maryland College Park, 1999-02
  
• Postdoctoral, Georgetown University, 1998-99
  
• Ph.D., Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, 1998
• B.S., Kazan State University, 1993

Research Interests

• Development of nanosize carriers for drug and gene therapy
• Supramolecular tools for monitoring of membrane leakage and lipid flip
• Localization and signal amplification of the ligand-gated cellular channels

Select Publications

P. Wehunt, C. A. Winschel, A. K. Khan, T. L. Guo, G. R. Abdrakhmanova, V. Sidorov, Controlled Drug Release System Based on pH-Sensitive Chloride-Triggerable Liposomes. J. Liposome Res. 23, 2013, 37–46.

V.Kaushik, V., N. Cook, A. Liang, U. R. Desai, V. Sidorov. Chemoselective Precipitation of Lactose from Lactose/Sucrose Mixture: Proof of the Concept for the New Separation Methodology. Supramol. Chem. 22, 2010, 751-757.

Winschel, V. Kaushik, G. Abdrakhmanova, S. M. Aris, V. Sidorov. New non-invasive methodology for Monitoring of Lipid-Flip. Bioconjugate Chem, 18, 2007, 1507-1515.

G. Uhl, II, A. Stevenson, V.Sidorov. Towards improved gene delivery: Flip of cationic lipids in highly polarized liposomes. Chem. Commun. 2007, 383-385.

Winschel, A. Kalidindi, I. Zgani, J. Magruder, V. Sidorov. Receptor for Anionic Pyrene Derivatives Provides the Basis for New Biomembrane Assays. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 127, 2005, 14704-14713.