People in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Tracy Brooks

Chair and Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Menner Family Endowed Faculty Fellow

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Oncology
  • Anti-cancer therapeutics
  • Drug target development
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Aaron Beedle

Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Chair, Faculty Senate

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; Faculty Senate

Research Interests

  • Muscular dystrophy
  • disease pathogenesis and therapeutics
  • Dystroglycan
  • glycosylation
  • the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex
  • Skeletal muscle
  • heart
  • and brain function
  • Mouse genetic models
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Tony Davis

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Natural products biosynthesis
  • Infectious diseases
  • Neurological disorders
  • Drug discovery and development
  • Chemical biology
  • Synthetic and medicinal chemistry
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Katie Edwards

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Liposomal combination drug formulations
  • Thiamine deficiency and supplementation
  • Bioanalytical assay development
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Yuan Fang

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Health outcomes
  • Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  • Cognitive aging, dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Clustering, statistical learning, statistical computing
  • Non-Gaussian data/distributions
  • Longitudinal data analyses
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Yanyan Li

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Inflammatory diseases
  • Inflammation-associated cancer
  • Aging-associated disorders
  • Microbiota and natural products for drug discovery and development
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Kuo-Ching (KC) Mei

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Therapeutic delivery (drug/gene/antigen/macromolecule)
  • Molecular pharmaceutics and Pharmacoengineering
  • Tumor immune microenvironment
  • Lipid nanoparticles, liposomes and lipid drug conjugates
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Melissa Morales

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • • Neuromuscular diseases
    • Inflammatory and autoimmune diseases
    • Preclinical drug testing
    • Non-immune contributors to disease

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Azadeh Nasuhidehnavi

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Immunometabolic regulations
  • Host-parasite interactions
  • Infectious diseases
  • Cardiometabolic diseases
  • Neuroimmunology
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Lynda Ruffini

Senior Research Support Specialist

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Veterinary medicine and surgery
  • Rodent colony management
  • Laboratory management
  • Alcohol in adolescents
  • Hepatitis C virus
  • Alzheimer’s disease and Amyloidosis Dutch-type
  • Pediatric cardiopulmonary disease
  • Phospholipids
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Nathan Tumey

Assistant Graduate Director; Vice Chair and Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Medicinal chemistry
  • Targeted drug delivery
  • Antibody-drug conjugates
  • Auto-immune disease / inflammation
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Tao Zhang

Director of Pharmacokinetics and Bioanalysis Facility; Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research Interests

  • Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling
  • In vitro and in vivo correlation
  • Drug transfer into milk, drug safety during breastfeeding
  • Gut microbiome, inflammation and colorectal cancer
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Courtesy Faculty

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Kaiming Ye

SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair

Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests

  • Advanced biomanufacturing
  • 3D bioprinting
  • stem cell and regenerative medicine
  • nanomedicine
  • cell engineering
  • vaccine development
  • single molecular imaging
  • biosensors
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