Graduate Faculty Directory
Pharmaceutics Faculty
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Adeboye Adejare
Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Director, Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Program
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
My group is interested in the areas of design and syntheses of small organic molecules to probe neurodegeneration. We are also interested in in vitro models of drug absorption and ability to cross the blood brain barrier, drug targeting, pharmaceutical profiling, and chemistry of fluoroaromatic compounds. The major therapeutic ideas we focus on are N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists and gamma-secretase inhibitors. These two mechanisms have been implicated in neurodegeneration as observed in stroke and Alzheimer’s...
Bin Chen
Assistant Professor of Phamaceutical Sciences
My research focus on targeting tumor blood vessels for cancer therapy. We are particularly interested in using photo-active drugs(photosensitizers) to modify tumor vascular function. Current research projects include characterizing blood vessel structural and functional changes induced by vascular targeting therapy, studying the interaction between vascular targeting therapy and conventional tumor cellular targeting therapy, and elucidating the molecular mechanism of vascular-targeting therapy. Fluorescence imaging is an important component of our research. We have developed an integrated...
Anil D’mello
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Russell J. DiGate
Provost
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Pardeep Gupta
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
S. Kamal Jonnalagadda
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
Dr. Jonnalagadda earned a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and a B.Pharm. from BIT, in India. He studies the design, characterization and modeling of polymeric biomaterials for specific pharmaceutical applications, including solid dosage forms and biodegradable polymeric implants for macromolecular drug delivery and tissue engineering.
Steven Neau
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Clyde M. Ofner
Director, Graduate Programs in Pharmaceutics
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
Dr. Ofner has been an associate professor of pharmaceutics in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia since 1987. His responsibilities include teaching courses in pharmacy, pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmaceutical technology, as well as in the pharmaceutics graduate program. He has directed the research of about two dozen undergraduate and graduate students which has involved gelatin, a natural product, and includes anticancer-gelatin conjugates for soluble and microsphere delivery, and release...
Dina Patel
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Aniruddha M. Railkar
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Rodney J Wigent
Dean, College of Graduate Studies
Director, Office of Research Administration
Research Professor of Pharmaceutics
Professor of Chemistry
Trained as a physical chemist, Dr. Wigent studied water and the effects on biological molecules using thermodynamics in graduate school. He also developed models to explain the thermodynamic properties of concentrated electrolyte solutions. Upon coming to PCPS, now USP, as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry, he continued his studies on the effects of water on various physical systems such as the structure and stability of DNA, DNA supercoiling, and the physical properties of microcrystalline cellulose...
