Pharmaceutics Faculty and Staff
Professor
Focus areas: Psychiatric and behavioral phenotypes, epigenomics, transcriptomics, single-nucleus sequencing, personalized treatment response
Professor
Focus areas: Psychiatric and behavioral phenotypes, epigenomics, transcriptomics, single-nucleus sequencing, personalized treatment response
Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Engineering and Sciences
Focus areas: Nanomedicine, pharmaceutical engineering, noninvasive drug & gene delivery, biomaterials, cancer nanotechnology, aerosol formulation
Director of the Center for Compounding Practice and Research
Focus areas: Compounding, pharmacy technician training programs
Professor
Focus areas: Oral bioavailability enhancement, drug transport and metabolism, novel oral formulations, bioanalytical techniques (e.g. HPLC/MS), pharmacokinetic characterization
Bioanalytical Laboratory Director
Focus areas: Toxicology, quantitative biopharmaceutical analysis, biorelevant in vitro release testing and devices, large molecule LC-MS/MS
Director, VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Proteomics Shared Resource
Focus areas: Chemoproteomics methods for discovering investigational drug targets and complex carbohydrate-protein interactions, quantitative glycoproteomics workflow development (i.e., TMT-labeling, off-line UHPLC fractionation, MS/MS method, and data analysis) for comparative analysis of hematopoietic tissues and cells, gas-phase MS/MS sequencing strategy development for improving glycosaminoglycan structural analysis
Peter R. Byron Distinguished Professor
Focus areas: Aerosol drug delivery to the lungs, dry powder surfactant delivery to neonates, inhalation formulation development
Assistant Research Professor
Focus areas: Aerosol formulation development, dry powder surfactant delivery to neonates, characterization, drug-device combination, solid-state stability, inhalation research
Research Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Drug development, drug optimization, ocular diseases, lung diseases, peripheral pain conditions
Chair of Pharmaceutics
Focus areas: Drug transporters, drug disposition, barrier membrane function, triple negative breast cancer, mRNA therapeutic formulation and delivery
Director of Center for Biomarker Research and Precision Medicine
Associate Professor
Focus areas: Nanomedicine, drug delivery, biomaterials, ocular diseases, opioid use disorder, pulmonary drug delivery and aerosol
