(US PATENT #5,262,537) - cancer
anti-emetic.
She has numerous publications in Chemistry (internal and external), including one on which she was co-author with Dr. Vidyadhar Paradkar that appeared in" The Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 12/93, pgs. 1497-1500, entitled "Reaction of B-Keto Ethyleneacetals with Hyroxylamine:
A Correction".
The syntheses and reports that were carried out by Tamara and Dr. Paradkar proved the Russian scientific publication to be incorrect..
She has done pioneer research on Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs, NOS Inhibitors, Serotonin Receptor Antagonists, Organo-Phosphorus compounds, as well as drugs for diabetes
and obesity. She has also worked at
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Institute, in the cyclotron "hot cell" on Fluorine 18 positron emitters for PET scanning. Tamara also performed the initial synthesis of B-methylene-D-L-aspartate, a suicide inhibitor of aspartate aminotransferase, for Dr. Arthur Cooper of Cornell Medical.
Tamara attended University of Rhode Island, Long Island University and York College (CUNY). She acquired a BS degree in Chemistry from York College, completed graduate courses in Advanced Organic Chemistry and Advanced Syntheses at Queens College, (CUNY), followed by Medicinal Chemistry at Drew University., Madison, N.J.
Tamara's poetry has been featured on Poetry Today, "WRTN 93.5 FM, a radio station from New York hosted by Florence Henderson. She is a member of the International Poetry Hall of Fame, where her poetry exhibit with sound is currently being showcased. Further, Tamara is a Vietnam Veteran (US Navy WAVES) and received the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award while in the Navy.
Tamara has done several readings at the Milford Fine Arts Council, Milford, CT and Barnes and Noble, and has taught two poetry classes at Ansonia Middle School, Ansonia, CT.
The advice she extends to people in gerneral is "Don't spend a lifetime waiting for opportunity to knock; but rather, make your own opportunities."
Theory of the Trinity - c 1996
(One Godhead comprised of three interchangeable entities)
E= mc2 where
E= Energy (God) Father
m= mass (Jesus Christ) Son
c = speed of light (Holy Spirit) Mother
Copyright on this Trinity theory 1996
Library of Congress
Copyright # PAu 2-098-293 6/17/96
Copyright # PAu 3-141-023 8/13/07
"The Poet"
c 2009
My life
wending as the train
plowing through the global tracks
of time
compassing
a techno-plastic world
whose people
ants with laptops
following the Dow
on mobile phones
stop only momentarily
to flash
a glacial smile.