Formulating and Delivering Effective Therapeutics

Complementing our curriculum, students may select from a rich portfolio of research areas to pursue. Our research environment is highly collaborative and multidisciplinary with innovative research projects and world-class facilities. The new College of Pharmacy Building was completed in 2019 and equipped with spacious laboratories, cell culture facilities, advanced analytical instrumentation, and well-appointed student offices. 

Pharmaceutics faculty are actively engaged in solving critical healthcare challenges related to mechanisms of drug absorption, physiologic distribution, and elimination; improved therapeutic performance through targeted drug delivery or alternative routes of administration; material discovery and development; compatibility and optimization for formulation design; and materials processing for improved drug product manufacturing.  Active areas of research are highlighted below, and for further details, please refer to the individual faculty profiles. 

Pharmaceutics Graduate Program

Areas of Research

  • Advanced manufacturing methods
  • Cell-based therapies
  • Chemical and physical stability of drug formulations
  • Crystal engineering and novel solid-form discovery
  • Formulating protein pharmaceuticals
  • Nano- and microparticle drug delivery
  • Nasal drug delivery
  • Novel drug and gene delivery systems
  • Particle engineering
  • Pharmaceutical materials science
  • Physical pharmacy
  • Population pharmacokinetic modeling
  • Protein aggregation
  • Quantitative systems pharmacology
  • RNA and DNA drug delivery
  • Tissue engineering
  • Transdermal drug delivery
  • Vaccine design and development

Faculty in Pharmaceutics

An, Guohua

Modeling Molecules, Improving Drug Uptake in the Brain, and Analyzing Herbal-Drug Interactions

Guohua An
Associate Professor

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Solving Skin Puzzles to Benefit Vulnerable People

Nicole Brogden
Associate Professor

Maureen Donovan

Developing New Ways for the Body to Absorb Medications

Maureen Donovan
Professor

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Particle Engineering for Next Generation Pharmaceuticals

Tze Ning Hiew
Assistant Professor

Reza Nejadnik

Exploring Protein Pharmaceuticals

Reza Nejadnik
Associate Professor

Aliasger Salem

Designing New Drug Delivery Systems and Vaccine Development

Aliasger Salem
Bighley Chair & Professor

Lewis Stevens

Better Medicines by Material Design

Lewis Stevens
Associate Professor