Pharmacoengineering Program - UNC/NCSU Joint Department of ...

Sam Lai
Philip Smith
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Infectious diseases; drug delivery to and
imaging of metastatic tumors
Division Director of Graduate
Admission and Graduate Studies
Division Vice Chair
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samlai
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philipsmith
Pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism,
primarily glucuronidation. Study of quantitative
proteomic LC-MS methods of proteins
involved in drug disposition
Weili Lin
Andrew Wang
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weililin
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russellmumper
Director, Biomedical Research
Imaging Center
Dixie Lee Boney Soo Distinguished
Professor of Neurological Medicine
Non-invasive multi-modality imaging for
guiding and monitoring therapeutic
interventions.
Russell Mumper
John A. McNeill Distinguished Professor
Vice Dean
Nanoparticles and other novel drug delivery
technologies to treat or prevent cancer and
infectious diseases
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andrew-wang
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xiaoxiao
Assistant Professor of Radiation
Oncology
Development and application of nanoparticle
therapeutics in cancer treatment; development
of 3D in vitro tumor models of cancer
metastasis that reflects organ specificity
Xiao Xiao
Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor
Molecular medicine, specifically gene
delivery and therapy for various genetic
and acquired diseases
Admissions
Admission is competitive. Over the last five years,
GRE scores for those accepted average in the
eighty-fifth and eighty-eighth percentiles for the
verbal and quantitative sections, respectively.
Teaching and research assistantships provide an
annual stipend of $27,500 plus in-state tuition
and health-insurance coverage.
Qualified applicants will also receive the Molecular
Pharmaceutics Scholar Fellowship, which provides
a $3,000 supplement to the first-year stipend and
may be extended to the second year.
Molecular
Pharmaceutics
including an emphasis on
Pharmacoengineering
Facilities
• MOPH faculty and students work in 22,000
square feet of lab space, most of it newly
constructed or renovated since 2008.
• Genetic Medicine Building: Completed in 2008 and
shared with the UNC School of Medicine, the GMB
contains 75,000 square feet of the School’s lab space.
• Image Research Building: Scheduled to open in
2014 across the street from the GMB, the IRB will
add an additional 75,000 square feet of lab space
to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, bringing
the total to approximately 225,000 square feet.
• Carolina offers outstanding shared instruments
and state-of-the-art core facilities.
Contact
Admissions information at
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Philip Smith, PhD
Division Director of Graduate Studies
pcs@email.unc.edu
919-962-0095
Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics
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Our Faculty Sets Us Apart
Elena Batrakova
Zhen Gu
Rudy Juliano
The MOPH faculty includes developers of a number of novel, patented
drug-delivery systems; NIH study section members; entrepreneurs;
editorial board members; and authors of hundreds of scholarly works.
Our faculty is highly collaborative and entrepreneurial, having applied
for eighteen patents based on their research and establishing seven
new pharmaceutical and biotech companies in recent years.
Associate Professor
Living cells as drug delivery vehicles for
treatment of neurodegenerative disorders
Assistant Professor
Integrating biomaterials design, biomolecular
engineering and micro/nanofabrication
toward on-demand drug delivery focused on
cancer, diabetes, and regenerative medicine
Boshamer Distinguished Professor
Regulation of signal transduction and cell
growth by integrin-mediated cell adhesion,
therapeutic drug design and delivery
The faculty comprises eleven tenure-track faculty and ten research
faculty. Our tenure-track faculty members have averaged more than
$800,000 each in annual research funding over the last four years.
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elenabatrakova
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labs/gulab
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rudyjuliano
Michael Jay
Paul Dayton
Shawn Hingtgen
Alexander Kabanov
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michaeljay
Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor
Division Chair
Solving problems in nuclear imaging and
therapy and in the development of novel
formulations and drug delivery systems
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pauldayton
Professor, UNC/NCSU Joint Department
of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Director for Education, UNC
Biomedical Research Imaging Center
Developing new technologies for imaging
blood flow, microvasculature and molecular
markers using ultrasound and microbubble
contrast agents
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shawnhingtgen
Assistant Professor
Harnessing the power of stem cells and
molecular imaging to develop and translate
innovative cancer therapies
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alexanderkabanov
Mescal S. Ferguson Distinguished
Professor
Director, Center for Nanotechnology
in Drug Delivery
Enabling technologies using polymers,
magnets, small drugs and biotherapeutics
to treat cancer, brain and other diseases
Nancy Allbritton
Joseph DeSimone
Leaf Huang
Richard Kowalsky
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allbritton
Debreczeny Distinguished Professor
Professor and Chair, UNC/NCSU Joint
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Curriculum of Applied
Science and Engineering
Signaling in single cells, microfabricated
systems for cellular analysis
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josephdesimone
Director, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute
of Private Enterprise
Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of
Chemistry, UNC
William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor
of Chemical Engineering, NCSU
New medicines and vaccines; nanomedicine;
medical devices; entrepreneurship
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leafhuang
Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor
Development of non-viral vectors for gene
(including oligonucleotides) therapy; receptor
mediated drug and vaccine targeting
using self-assembled nanoparticles
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richardkowalsky
Associate Professor
Application of radioactivity and radioactive
drugs to solve clinical research problems
Molecular Pharmaceutics at Carolina
Molecular pharmaceutics deals with delivering
and maintaining the desired amount of a therapeutic
agent at a target site for a specific period
of time. This discipline is crucial to turning new
molecular entities into safe and effective drugs.
Pharmacoengineering
In collaboration with the UNC-NCSU Joint Department
of Biomedical Engineering, MOPH offers the
PhD program in pharmaceutical sciences with an emphasis
on pharmacoengineering, which integrates engineering
methods with pharmaceutical sciences.
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Center for Nanotechnology
in Drug Delivery
MOPH is home to the Center for Nanotechnology in
Drug Delivery directed by Mescal S. Ferguson Distinguished
Professor Alexander “Sasha” Kabanov, PhD.
The center focuses on improving human health by
safely and effectively translating new drug and imaging
discoveries into clinical trials using nanotechnology.
The center creates and develops cutting-edge,
nanotechnology-based drug- and imaging-delivery
systems; facilitates drug discovery and identification
of drug leads; and formulates and characterizes the
identified preclinical and clinical leads for testing.
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