Dr. Brandon Bordeau
Research Interests: Developing innovative antibody-based therapies. We employ pharmacokinetic modeling and simulation to identify key antibody attributes including target binding affinity, clearance rates, valency, and molecular size.
Current PharmSci Students:
- Ying Meng
- Dhruv Sanjanwala
Dr. Ashlee Brunaugh
Research Interests: Elucidating the underlying mechanisms for respiratory disease progression to determine appropriate therapeutic targets and develop novel formulation and inhaled drug delivery approaches to improve patient outcomes.
Current PharmSci Students:
- Mariana Romero-Gonzalez
- Bhanuz Dechayont
- Nishant Shah
- Grace Xia
Dr. Wei Cheng
Research Interests: The molecular basis of viral immunogenicity and the implications for the development of vaccines. Multi-parameter analysis of single biological nanoparticles.
Current PharmSci Students:
- Alex Meyer
- Coumbe Yoda (PharmD/PhD)
Dr. Gergely Lautner
Research Interests: Developing innovative technologies for nitric oxide (NO) delivery and expanding the therapeutic potential and use of NO.
Current PharmSci Students:
- Hannah Naldrett
Dr. James Moon
Research Interests: Developing new drug delivery systems for improving immune functions in the context of cancer, autoimmune diseases, and the gut microbiome.
Current PharmSci Students:
- Fang Xie
- Xingwu Zhou
- April Kim
- Swetha Kodamasimham (Co-advised by Dr. Steven Schwendeman)
- Julia Crowther
- Qing Sun (Co-advised by Dr. Julian Zhu)
- Quguang Li
- Yue He
Dr. Anna Schwendeman
Research Interests: Formulation of sHDL and lipid nanoparticles for drug delivery. Developing science-based regulations for testing of complex parenteral products such as nanoparticles, recombinant proteins and microspheres
Current PharmSci Students:
- Antonela Rodriguez (co-advised by Dr. Michael Holinstat)
- Adaeze Eneli
- Vivian Juang
- Kaikai Wang
- Julia Catalano
- May Phoo
Dr. Steven Schwendeman
Research Interests: Mechanistic approaches to control the release of biomacromolecular drugs, vaccine antigens, and challenging small molecules (e.g., hydrophobic anticancer drugs) from biodegradable polymers.
Current PharmSci Students:
- Cameron White
- Corrine Din
- Tao Zheng
- Aishwarya Chandrashekar
- Shuying Wang
- Swetha Kodamasimham (Co-advised by Dr. James Moon)
- John McClay
Dr. Duxin Sun
Research Interests: Drug Development, Cancer NanoMedicine, Cancer Vaccine, Pharmacokinetics
Current PharmSci Students:
- Zera Montemayor
- Luchen Zhang
- Natalie Jusko
- Hanning Wen
- Neha Karekar
- Hannah Myatt
Dr. Peter Tessier
Research Interests: Developing best-in-class therapeutic antibodies and apply them to address multiple key biomedical challenges.
Current PharmSci Students:
- Namir Khalasawi (co-advised by Dr. Greg Thurber)
- Cecilia Spesia
- Yunxuan Xie
Dr. Connie Wu
Research Interests: Accelerate biomarker signature discovery for applications in cancer and other diseases; and engineer multifunctional RNA therapeutics and rationally designed nanomaterials.
Current PharmSci Students:
- None at the moment
Dr. Guizhi (Julian) Zhu
Research Interests: Developing novel circRNA/mRNA/oligonucleotides immunotherapeutics and vaccines and their delivery systems for the prophylaxis and immunotherapy of cancer, infectious diseases, and autoimmune disorders.
Current PharmSci Students:
- Shurong Zhou
- Xiang Liu
- Zitong Wang
- Qing Sun (Co-advised by Dr. James Moon)
Dr. Haojie Zhu
Research Interests: Identifying genetic variants and environmental regulators that impact pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of various therapeutic agents using an integrated multi-omics approach (e.g., genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics).
Current PharmSci Students:
- Sunny Jung (PharmD/PhD)
- Hui Yu
First Years
Vincent Cicale, Katherine Dong, Helen Ju, Yunhu Liu, Ziyi Lu, Jonah Lyon, Fanli Shi, Jett Stad, Erika Kay-Tsumagari, Hongru Zheng
