Regents Award for Faculty Excellence, Iowa Board of Regents

The Power List 2024, The Medicine Maker

Elected Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Elected Executive Board Member, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

Elected Fellow, Controlled Release Society

First Place Prize ($25,000) for Petrost Therapeutics, University of Iowa Innovation Challenge

Louis W. Busse Lecturer, University of Wisconsin

Start-Up Technology Company of the Year Award to S5G Therapeutics, 2022 Prometheus Awards Competition, Technology Association of Iowa

First Place Prize ($25,000) for S5G Therapeutics, University of Iowa Innovation Challenge

Certificate of Distinction, Student Supervisor of the Year Award, College of Pharmacy, University of Iowa

Full Member of Sigma XI

Full Member and Graduate of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Member and Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)

Member and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Member and Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

Board Member and Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)

Member and Fellow of the Controlled Release Society (CRS)

Member of the Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Association

Member of the Materials Research Society (MRS)

Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS)

Hlas, A.; Ganesh, V.; Marks, J.; He, R.; Salem, A. K.; Buckwalter, J. A.; Duchman, K. R.; Shin, K.; Martin, J. A.; Seol, D. Buffering Mitigates Chondrocyte Oxidative Stress, Metabolic Dysfunction, and Death Induced by Normal Saline: Formulation of a Novel Arthroscopic Irrigant. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2024, 25 (2), 1286. DOI: 10.3390/ijms25021286. PMID: 38279286. PMCID: PMC10816598.

Nakhla, D. S.; Mekkawy, A. I.; Naguib, Y. W.; Silva, A. D.; Gao, D.; Kim, J. A.; Alhaj-Suliman, S. O.; Acri, T. M.; Ernst, S.; Stoltz, D. A.; Welsh, M. J.; Salem, A. K. Injectable long-acting ivacaftor-loaded poly (lactide-co-glycolide) microparticle formulations for the treatment of cystic fibrosis: in vitro characterization and in vivo pharmacokinetics in mice. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 2024, 650, 123693. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2023.123693. PMID: 38081555. PMCID: PMC10843602.

Atluri, K.; Banas, J. A.; Chakka, J. L.; Avila-Ortiz, G.; Elangovan, S.; Salem, A. K. Metronidazole loaded chitosan coatings as dental implants.  Emergent Material 2024, 7, 1057–1070. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42247-024-00657-6.

Saha, S.; Skeie, J. M.; Schmidt, G. A.; Eggleston, T.; Shevalye, H.; Sales, C. S.; Phruttiwanichakun, P.; Dusane, A.; Field, M. G.; Rinkoski, T. A.; Fautsch, M. P.; Baratz, K. H.; Roy, M.; Jun, A. S.; Salem, A. K.; Greiner, M. A. TCF4 trinucleotide repeat expansions and UV irradiation are associated with ferroptosis susceptibility in Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy. Redox Biology 2024, 77, 103348. DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2024.103348. PMID: 39332053. PMCID: PMC11470242.

Salem, A. K. Recent Advances in Drug Delivery. The AAPS Journal 2024, 26 (3), 49. DOI: 10.1208/s12248-024-00920-y. PMID: 38622411.

Scholp, A. J.; Jensen, J. A.; Fowler, T. P.; Petersen, E.; Fredericks, D.; Salem, A. K.; Seol, D.; Coleman, M.; Lake, S. P.; Martin, J. A.; Sander, E. A. Capsule Release Surgery Temporarily Reduces Contracture in a Rat Elbow Model of Arthrofibrosis. Journal of Orthopaedic Research 2024, 43 (1), 23-26. DOI: 10.1002/jor.25967. PMID: 39279043. PMCID: PMC11615420.

Hassert, M.; Pewe, L. L.; He, R.; Heidarian, M.; Phruttiwanichakun, P.; Van de Wall, S.; Mix, M. R.; Salem, A. K.; Badovinac, V. P.; Harty, J. T. Regenerating murine memory CD8+ lung tissue resident memory T cells after targeted radiation exposure. Journal of Experimental Medicine 2024, 221 (3), e20231144. DOI: 10.1084/jem.20231144. PMID: 38363548. PMCID: PMC10873130.

Salem, A.K. Chlorine is a highly useful chemical that’s also extremely dangerous− here’s what to know about staying safe around it. The Conversation, November 27, 2023. https://theconversation.com/chlorine-is-a-highly-useful-chemical-thats-also-extremely-dangerous-heres-what-to-know-about-staying-safe-around-it-213998.

Malkawi, W.; Lutfi, A.; Afghan, M. K.; Shah, L. M.; Costandy, L.; Ramirez, A.; George, T.; Toor, F.; Salem, A. K.; Kasi, P. M. Circulating tumor cell enumeration, biomarker analyses, and kinetics in patients with colorectal cancer and other GI malignancies. Frontiers in Oncology 2023, 13, 1305181. DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1305181. PMID: 38044994. PMCID: PMC10693413.

Malkawi, W. I.; Laird, N. Z.; Phruttiwanichakun, P.; Mohamed, E.; Elangovan, S.; Salem, A. K. Application of lyophilized gene-delivery formulations to dental implant surfaces: non-cariogenic lyoprotectant preserves transfection activity of polyplexes long-term. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 2023, 112 (1), 83–90. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xphs.2022.11.008. PMID: 36372226. PMCID: PMC9772140.