Ana Catya Jiménez-Torres is The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Highlighted Trainee Author for March 2025. Ana is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of South Carolina. 

The JPET article that earned him the selection of Highlighted Trainee Author is titled “Identification of pyrimidine structure-based compounds as allosteric ligands of the dopamine transporter as therapeutic agents for NeuroHIV ” and is available at: https://doi.org/10.1124/jpet.124.002138. 

“The basis of my current research is identifying specific compounds that interact with unique sites on the dopamine transporter, diminishing the Tat-dopamine transporter interaction, thus the dopamine transporter may back to physiological functions promoting the attenuation of neurocognitive deficits in HIV- infection. The importance of this research address in the identification of potential therapeutic agents to normalize dopamine dynamics in the brain to treat neurocognitive disease in HIV patients.”