Narsimha Reddy Penthala

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Instructor

Last publication 2023 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

faculty

Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy

23 h-index 159 pubs 1,410 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Narsimha Reddy Penthala is an instructor in Pharmaceutics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. His research interests include the investigation of novel therapeutic agents for various diseases, with a focus on cancer, neurodegenerative disorders, and bone/kidney toxicity.

Penthala has published research on the antitumor properties of sesquiterpene lactone analogs, exploring their potential as NFκB inhibitors. He has also investigated the use of hydroxybenzylamine-deoxyvasicinone hybrids as anticholinesterase therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease and the efficacy of thiadiazolidinone (TDZD) analogs in inhibiting aggregation-mediated pathology in neurodegeneration models. His work extends to evaluating the toxicity of drug carriers, such as BT2-peg2 for targeted antibiotic delivery to bone, and pharmacokinetic studies of compounds like morphine-6-O-sulfate.

His recent publications include work on biobanked glioblastoma patient-derived organoids as a model for precision medicine and studies on the pharmacological dual inhibition of tumor and tumor-induced functional limitations in a transgenic breast cancer model. Penthala leads a research group and has a scholarly output characterized by 159 publications and 1,385 citations, with an h-index of 23. He collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Peter A. Crooks and Meenakshisundaram Balasubramaniam.

Metrics

  • h-index: 23
  • Publications: 159
  • Citations: 1,410

Selected Publications

  • Thiadiazolidinone (TDZD) Analogs Inhibit Aggregation-Mediated Pathology in Diverse Neurodegeneration Models, and Extend C. elegans Life- and Healthspan (2023)
    12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Table S2 from Pharmacological Dual Inhibition of Tumor and Tumor-Induced Functional Limitations in a Transgenic Model of Breast Cancer (2023)
  • Biobanked Glioblastoma Patient-Derived Organoids as a Precision Medicine Model to Study Inhibition of Invasion (2021)
    23 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Novel hydroxybenzylamine-deoxyvasicinone hybrids as anticholinesterase therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease (2021)
    22 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Antitumor properties of novel sesquiterpene lactone analogs as NFκB inhibitors that bind to the IKKβ ubiquitin-like domain (ULD) (2021)
    9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Evaluation of bone and kidney toxicity of BT2-peg2, a potential carrier for the targeted delivery of antibiotics to bone (2021)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A pharmacokinetic study of <scp>morphine‐6‐<i>O</i></scp>‐sulfate in rat plasma and brain (2021)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex

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Grants & Funding

  • Enhancing the prevention and treatment of orthopaedic infections associated with traumatic injury US Department of Defense Co-Investigator
  • Development of Small Molecule Radiation Sensitizers NIH/Nat. Cancer Institute - Pass Through: Vanderbilt University Co-Investigator
  • Development of Novel Therapeutics for Methamphetamine Abuse - Continuation NIH/Nat. Inst. on Drug Abuse - Pass Through: University of Kentucky Research Foundation Co-Investigator
  • Early Events in Alzheimer Pathogenesis NIH Co-Investigator
  • Novel melampomagnolide B-based prodrugs for the treatment of leukemia NIH Co-Investigator

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