People in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

• Muscular dystrophy
• disease pathogenesis and therapeutics
• Dystroglycan
• glycosylation
• the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex
• Skeletal muscle
• heart
• and brain function
• Mouse genetic models

Research Interests

• Immunology
• Neuromuscular diseases
• Autoimmune diseases
• Drug development

Research Interests

• Molecular genetics
• Neuromuscular diseases
• Drug development

Research Interests

• Behavioral pharmacology

• Addiction neurogenetics

• Genomics and transcriptomics

Research Interests

• Oncology
• Anti-cancer therapeutics
• Drug target development

Research Interests

• Natural products biosynthesis
• Infectious diseases
• Neurological disorders
• Drug discovery and development
• Chemical biology
• Synthetic and medicinal chemistry

Research Interests

• Liposomal combination drug formulations
• Thiamine deficiency and supplementation
• Bioanalytical assay development

Research Interests

• Health outcomes
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
• Cognitive aging, dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease
• Clustering, statistical learning, statistical computing
• Non-Gaussian data/distributions
• Longitudinal data analyses

Research Interests

• Bio-analytical mass spectrometry
• Proteomic studies of human diseases

Research Interests

• Inflammatory diseases
• Inflammation-associated cancer
• Aging-associated disorders
• Microbiota and natural products for drug discovery and development

Research Interests

• Therapeutic delivery (drug/gene/antigen/macromolecule)
• Molecular pharmaceutics and Pharmacoengineering
• Tumor immune microenvironment
• Lipid nanoparticles, liposomes and lipid drug conjugates

Research Interests

• Myositis
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
• Mechanisms underlying neuromuscular diseases
• Behavioral and Cellular Neuroscience

Research Interests

• Health outcomes
• neurodegenerative diseases
• Pharmacoepidemiology
• Large-claims databases

Research Interests

• Medicinal chemistry
• Targeted drug delivery
• Antibody-drug conjugates
• Auto-immune disease / inflammation

Research Interests

• Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling
• In vitro and in vivo correlation
• Drug transfer into milk, drug safety during breastfeeding
• Gut microbiome, inflammation and colorectal cancer

Research Interests

• Ancient DNA
• Forensic genetics
• Bioarchaeology
• Molecular anthropology

Research Interests

• Complex fluids
• Soft matter
• Cellular and Tissue mechanics
• Traction force Microscopy
• Cosmetic Physics

Research Interests

• Stem-cell engineering
• Proteomics and bioinformatics
• Cell signaling
  
• Environmental engineering

Research Interests

• Advanced biomanufacturing
• 3D bioprinting
• stem cell and regenerative medicine
• nanomedicine
• cell engineering
• vaccine development
• single molecular imaging
• biosensors