Larry Vernetti, Ph.D.
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Ph.D. in Toxicology, University of Arizona | |||||||||||||||||
ContactE-mail: vernetti@pitt.edu |
Research SummaryThe focus of my research is developing early in vitro safety assessment and in vitro ADME models to identify risky compound candidates and allowing the drug developer to focus on fewer but more likely to succeed candidates. An important part of this research is the identification of the molecular mechanism of toxicity (MOA) within the cell, and then understanding how this can be used to predict target organ toxicity. The need for such an application is clear just by considering liver toxicity as an example. Despite decades of extensive animal testing, only half of the pharmaceutics which eventually produced clinical liver toxicity showed evidence of liver damage during animal trials. Bridging this gap is a necessary step forward to developing safer and effective drugs. Recent PublicationsVernetti L, Gough A, Baetz N, Blutt S, Broughman JR, Brown JA, Foulke-Abel J, Hasan N, In J, Kelly E, Kovbasnjuk O, Repper J, Senutovitch N, Stabb J, Yeung C, Zachos NC, Donowitz M, Estes M, Himmelfarb J, Truskey G, Wikswo JP, Taylor DL (2017) Functional Coupling of Human Microphysiology Systems: Intestine, Liver, Kidney Proximal Tubule, Blood-Brain Barrier and Skeletal Muscle. Sci Rep. 7: 42296Vernetti L, Gough A, Baetz N, Blutt S, Broughman JR, Brown JA, Foulke-Abel J, Hasan N, In J, Kelly E, Kovbasnjuk O, Repper J, Senutovitch N, Stabb J, Yeung C, Zachos NC, Donowitz M, Estes M, Himmelfarb J, Truskey G, Wikswo JP, Taylor DL (2017) Corrigendum: Functional Coupling of Human Microphysiology Systems: Intestine, Liver, Kidney Proximal Tubule, Blood-Brain Barrier and Skeletal Muscle. Sci Rep. 7: 44517 Lee-Montiel FT, George SM, Gough A, Sharma AD, Wu J, DeBiasio R, Vernetti L, Taylor DL (2017) Control of oxygen tension recapitulates zone-specific functions in human liver microphysiology systems. Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 242(16): 1617-1632 Grants
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