Congratulations to Srimahitha Kaliki for her successful defense of her Ph.D. dissertation “Characterization of Biological Hydrogel Barriers”. Well done Dr Kaliki!

Congratulations to Dr Nihal Bandara and his team: Alejandro Harb, David Kolacny, and Patricia Martins for their work “Sound waves effectively assist tobramycin in elimination of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms in vitro.” that has been accepted for publication in AAPS PharmSciTech!

Congratulations to Ju Du and collaborator, Dr Ibrahim El-Sherbiny on the publication of Swellable Ciprofloxacin-Loaded Nano-in-Micro Hydrogel Particles for Local Lung Drug Delivery paper in AAPS PharmSciTech!

Congratulations to Diana Guzman-Villaneuva and collaborators: Dea Herrara (Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico),  Ibrahim M. El-Sherbiny (The University of Science and Technology, Zewail City, Egypt, and Alexander (Sasha) V. Vlassov from Life Technologies for the paper: Enhanced cellular uptake and gene silencing activity of siRNA molecules mediated by chitosan-derivative nano complexes published in International Journal of Pharmaceutics!

June 2014

Dr Silvia Ferrati joins the lab as a Post-doctoral fellow from the Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute!

Dr Xianfei Xie also joins the lab as a visiting scientist!

Dr Smyth is accepted into the AACP academic research fellows program.

Ping Du and Ju Du publish paper on “Evaluation of Granulated Lactose as a Carrier for DPI Formulations 1: Effect of Granule Size” in AAPS PharmSciTech