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