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
Research Assistant Professor
Focus areas: Study of extracellular vesicle cargo and its role in disease mechanisms, development of advanced methodologies for the isolation and characterization of extracellular vesicles, utilization of extracellular vesicles as diagnostic tools for various diseases, application of extracellular vesicle properties for advanced and innovative treatment strategies
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
