RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Current Areas of Research
Pharmacy Practice
- Adverse drug reaction reporting
- Clinical evaluation and pharmacokinetics of antibiotic and psychotropic drugs
- Computer-assisted teaching
- Non-prescription drug use
- Decision-making processes in health care
- Pharmacy education methods
- Pharmacoepidemiology and drug utilization
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Social and administrative pharmacy
- Brand personality, trust and service quality in community pharmacies
Pharmaceutics/Drug Delivery
- Dermal, transdermal and mucosal drug delivery
- Lipid-based drug delivery system
- Novel dosage form development
- Protein/peptide and DNA delivery
- Vaccine delivery
- Pharmaceutical analysis, raw materials and dosage forms
Biopharmaceutics/Pharmacokinetics/Drug Metabolism
- Bioavailability, bioequvalence and interchangeability of drug products
- Disposition of drugs in infants
- Drug-food interaction
- Factors contributing to variability in drug disposition
- Pharmacokinetics of drugs in humans and animals
- Drug-drug interactions
- Use of animal models in pharmacokinetics
- Reactive intermediates
- In vitro – in vivo correlation
- Cytochrome P450 enzymes
Pharmaceutical and Medical Chemistry
- Synthetic anticonvulsants
- Cancer chemotherapy
- Development of analytical techniques
- Metabolism and efficacy of psychotropic drugs
- Monoclonal antibodies
- Chemo prevention
Molecular Biology/Biotechnology
- Gene cloning and expression
- Antisense oligonucleotides
- In situ hybridization histochemistry
- Cell and organ culture
- Protein – DNA interventions
- Protein Expression and Purification
Community Nutrition
- Roles of community nutritionists and dieticians
- Access to healthy foods
Nutrition Education
- Nutrition program planning and evaluation
- Nutrition knowledge, attitudes and beliefs
Clinical Nutrition
- Protein and Amino Acid Metabolism
- Calcium-diet interactions
- Nutrition and antioxidant defense
- Dietary assessment
- Nutritional effects on brain injury in stroke
- Body composition studies
- Older adult nutrition
- Diet and athletes
- Assessment of nutrient supplements
Foods and Foodservice
- Foodservices market research
- Food product development