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Mignon S. Adams
Chair, Department of Information Science
Director, Library and Information Science
Associate Professor of Information Science
Adeboye Adejare
Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Director, Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Program
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Research Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
My group is interested in the areas of design and syntheses of small organic molecules to probe neurodegeneration. We are also interested in in vitro models of drug absorption and ability to cross the blood brain barrier, drug targeting, pharmaceutical profiling, and chemistry of fluoroaromatic compounds. The major therapeutic ideas we focus on are N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists and gamma-secretase inhibitors. These two mechanisms have been implicated in neurodegeneration as observed in stroke and Alzheimer’s...
Eva Agbada
Adjunct Instructor of Information Science
Salar Alsardary
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Jennifer Anthony
Assistant Professor of Biology
William Ashton
Associate Dean, Mayes College of Healthcare Business and Policy
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Kevin Thomas Bain
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health
Alan Bakst
Adjunct Instructor of Pharmacy Administration
Richard Bartels
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Tilman Baumstark
Assistant Professor of Biology
RNA viruses and subviral RNA pathogens Plus-strand RNA viruses are responsible for many diseases in humans, animals, and plants. Hepatitis C, influenza, and SARS, for example, are caused by viruses from this important group. Our efforts are focused on an early step in the viral life cycle within the host cell, the recruitment of the viral RNA genome into a replication complex with viral and cellular proteins. Satellites and viroids are subviral RNAs that do...
Jennifer Beer
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Dr. Beer is an anthropologist and facilitator. Her consulting practice helps people to negotiate conflicts and to communicate across cultural boundaries. She has taught negotiation, mediation, and conflict resolution in many settings. A professional mediator and facilitator for 25 years, she authored two books: Peacemaking in your Neighborhood and The Mediator's Handbook. As a cultural anthropologist, she focuses on the cultural and social influences on work relations and decision-making within organizations. Dr. Beer has held...
Mark Beers
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health
Danny A. Benau
Associate Professor of Biomedical Writing
Catherine Bentzley
Associate Professor of Chemistry
The rapid and enormous expansion in the biotechnology revolution has caused increased interest in determining exact molecular weights of biological systems. Mass spectrometry offers a quick and convenient method for determining accurate molecular weights of biological samples including peptides, proteins, oligonucleotides and oligosaccharides. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI) and Electrospray Ionization (ESI) are the two predominant mass spectrometry techniques used for the development of biological assays. During the MALDI process singly charged analyte ions are produced after...
Brad C. Bernstein
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy
Joseph M. Betz
Adjunct Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Biotechnology
John A. Beutler
Adjunct Associate Professor of Cell Biology
Edward R. Birnbaum
Chair, Chemical Sciences Department
Professor of Chemistry
Lanthanide spectroscopy The incomplete 4f subshells of the lanthanide ions Ce3+ to Yb3+ result in a variety of magnetic and spectroscopic properties that are of interest from both a theoretical and practical perspective. For example, gadolinium (Gd3+) coordination complexes are administered to patients in order to enhance images obtained using MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) instruments. Similarly, the fluorescence behavior of the lanthanide ions, especially Eu3+ and Tb3+, are used to generate the images on a...
Robert Bonk
Adjunct Instructor of Pharmacy Administration
Leslie Ann Bowman
Associate Professor of Information Science
Kathleen K. Brogan
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health
Michael Bruist
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
The research in my laboratory investigates various aspects of the chemistry of DNA and its interaction with proteins. The IHF-DNA Complex Integration host factor (IHF) is a bacterial protein that bends DNA so that sites that are separated along the sequence are brought close together in space. This is critical to building intricate DNA-protein complexes with diverse functions, from regulating RNA synthesis to packing DNA into the heads of viruses. We are using molecular mechanics...
Joan Cavanagh
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Joan has over 20 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical industry, in Canada and the US, with Hoechst-Roussel, Roche and Bristol Myers Squibb, in Worldwide Strategic Planning, Marketing Research and International Marketing/Product Management. Since 2001, Joan has provided independent consulting and support services to large and small Pharmaceutical, Biotech and Medical Device companies in the areas of International Strategic Planning, Marketing, Marketing Research, Business Development, Portfolio Analysis, Forecasting, and Key Opinion Leader/Advocacy Programs. Joan has...
Bin Chen
Assistant Professor of Phamaceutical Sciences
My research focus on targeting tumor blood vessels for cancer therapy. We are particularly interested in using photo-active drugs(photosensitizers) to modify tumor vascular function. Current research projects include characterizing blood vessel structural and functional changes induced by vascular targeting therapy, studying the interaction between vascular targeting therapy and conventional tumor cellular targeting therapy, and elucidating the molecular mechanism of vascular-targeting therapy. Fluorescence imaging is an important component of our research. We have developed an integrated...
Amy Christopher
Assistant Professor of Information Science
Abigail Cohen
Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy
Carol Connell
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Jennifer J. Connor
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Writing
Ron Corey
Adjunct Instructor of Pharmacy Administration
David W. Cragin
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy
Glenna Crooks
Adjunct Instructor of Health Policy
William Cunningham
Assistant Dean of Students, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Instructor in Pharmaceutical Marketing
Lisa Davis
Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Anil D’mello
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Cindy Delano
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Ara DerMarderosian
Professor of Pharmacognosy
Research Professor of Pharmacognosy
My research interests include pharmacognosy, medicinal chemistry, and nutraceuticals. We focus on hallucinogenic botanicals: medicinal and poisonous plants and their phytochemistry and pharmacology; marine pharmaceuticals; drugs of abuse; and medical foods or “nutraceuticals.” Current projects in my group involve research on pomegranate, blueberries, erythroxylon species, barley, and antimicrobials in African herbs. Previous studies have been carried out on hallucinogenic morning glories, biosynthesis of indoles in the Convolvulaceae, and medically active compounds in several marine organisms....
Jeffrey J. DiFrancesco
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Professionally, Jeffrey is a director at a major pharmaceutical company where he is responsible for transformational and strategic initiatives in research and development. Academically, he teaches graduate courses in corporate finance, capital investments, and corporate governance as well as performs primary research and publishes on the matter of clinical development performance. Jeffrey's prior professional experiences include positions as executive officer and board member at several multinational public and private companies. Outside of Jeffery's professional and...
Russell J. DiGate
Dean, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Janeen DuChane
Adjunct Instructor of Pharmacy Administration
Thomas Egan
Adjunct Instructor of Pharmacy Administration
Elia V. Eschenazi
Chair, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science
Professor of Physics
Elisabetta Fasella
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
My research interests are in the area of bioorganic chemistry. We are currently working on two projects. The first project involves the synthesis of mimics of the cofactor of phenylalanine ammonia lyase and their evaluation as catalysts for the deamination of aromatic amino acids. The second project involves the synthesis of hydroxylated monomeric and dimeric chalcones and their evaluation as cysteine protease inhibitors. Mimics of the cofactor of phenylanalnine ammonialyase Phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL) catalyzes...
Linda Hull Felcone
Adjunct Instructor of Biomedical Writing
Robert Field
Director, Graduate Program in Health Policy
Chair, Department of Health Policy & Public Health
Associate Professor of Health Policy
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Dr. Field’s research and publications have focused on ethical issues in managed care, public policy and legal aspects of genetic screening, and health care industry restructuring. He is the author of Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation and Compromise (Oxford University Press, 2007), the only comprehensive review of health care regulation in the United States. Prior to joining University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Dr. Field was in charge of business planning and development...
Kelleen Flaherty
Adjunct Instructor of Biomedical Writing
Joseph P. Fuhr
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Dr. Fuhr’s primary research areas are antitrust, health economics, pharmacoeconomics, telecommunications, and sports economics. He has published over forty journal articles. In the field of telecommunications, he has written on investment and innovation, rural telephony, terminal equipment and universal service. In health care, he has written on hospital mergers, exclusive arrangements, health insurance, bundling and doctor’s fees. In pharmacoeconomics, he has written on cost benefit analysis and predictive modeling. In sports economics, Dr. Fuhr has...
Barry R. Furrow
Adjunct Professor of Health Policy
Jean Paul Gagnon
Adjunct Instructor of Health Policy
Adjunct Instructor of Pharmacy Administration
Philip Gehrman
Acting Program Director, Health Psychology Program
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Alfonso Gennaro
Professor of Chemistry (Emeritus)
Research Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
My research interests are in analytical drug detection development, drug interactions, and free radical initiation of drug decomposition. The stability of a drug in a variety of dosage forms under the many conditions of administration to the patient, prolonged storage under a myriad of climatic conditions, and admixture with other drugs and diluents is often unknown or, at best, based on conjecture with limited experimental evidence. Using modern analytical and instrumental techniques (infrared, high performance...
Gene Gibson
Adjunct Instructor of Pharmacy Administration
John Gilly
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Mr. Gilly is responsible for the day-to-day functional operations of Premier Research Group. Prior to joining Premier in October 2002, Dr. Gilly was Vice President, Manufacturing Division for BioReliance Corporation where he was responsible for the management of the contract manufacturing business. Prior to joining BioReliance in January 1999, he held the position of Vice President, Biopharmaceutical Operations for ImClone Systems Incorporated responsible for development, manufacturing, quality operations and regulatory affairs at the Somerville, NJ...
Harold Glass
Research Professor of Health Policy
Linda Macdonald Glenn
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Writing
Allen Glicksman
Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health
Neil I. Goldfarb
Adjunct Instructor Health Policy
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Mr. Goldfarb is Research Assistant Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College. Mr. Goldfarb also serves as Director of Ambulatory Care Performance Improvement for Jefferson University Physicians. Among Mr. Goldfarb’s research interests are managed care, care for the underserved, quality measurement and improvement, economic evaluation of health care technology, and promoting value-based purchasing of health benefits. Mr. Goldfarb co-directs the College for Advanced Management of Health Benefits,...
Pardeep Gupta
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
Paul Halpern
Professor of Mathematics and Physics
Peter J. Harvison
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Research Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
My research interests are primarily concerned with the effects of metabolism on the biological activity of chemicals (including drugs) to which humans and other mammals may be exposed. Although metabolism usually results in the formation of nontoxic substances, the opposite can also occur. For example, some chemicals are actually converted into highly toxic metabolites that can damage tissues or cause cancer. In particular, my research has focused on compounds that contain cyclic imide rings. One...
Timothy Hayes
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Writing
Carol Heiberger
Director, Operations for USP’s MBA Program
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Ms. Heiberger’s consulting practice, Energy & Telecom, takes advantage of her expertise in strategic planning, new business development, marketing, and finance with large complex organizations, small entrepreneurial groups, domestic and international markets. Carol creates effective teams by translating across functions and disciplines with a collaborative and hands-on leadership style. Industry experience includes: head of strategic planning for an electric/gas utility, increasing responsibilities voice-data-video services with Bell Atlantic, sales with the Ford Motor Company
Randy Hendrickson
Adjunct Associate Professor Biomedical Writing
Robert Hunter
Adjunct Instructor of Pharmacy Administration
Daniel Hussar
Remington Professor of Pharmacy
Annette Iglarsh
Chair, Department of Physical Therapy
Professor of Physical Therapy
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Joseph Jackson
Adjunct Instructor of Phamacy Administration
Adam Jacobs
Adjuct Associate Professor of Biomedical Writing
Amy Jessop
Assistant Professor of Health Policy
Dr. Jessop's research and publications focus on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. Recent projects include an assessment of infectious disease screening and immunization in perinatal care, barriers to viral hepatitis prevention and treatment in high-risk populations, assessment of hepatitis risk factors in primary care, and influenza and pneumococcal immunization policies and practices in the nursing home setting. Current projects include an examination of barriers to adult hepatitis vaccination, screening for hepatitis C...
James Johnson
Associate Professor of Biology
My primary research objective is to involve both myself and my associates in studies of the molecular mechanisms regulating gene expression and gene product function. My research projects include examination of the following aspects of molecular biology and microbial genetics: 1. Mutational analyses of genes, or regulatory regions 2. Cloning and sequencing of genes and regulatory regions 3. Studies of the physical structures of these isolated DNA sequences 4. Site directed and transposon mutagenesis of...
Judith Johnson
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Judy is currently working for an emerging pharmaceutical company in Fort Washington, PA, where she is working with the business and scientific teams to advance Vitae’s product candidates and accelerate the development of the company’s rapidly growing pipeline of exciting compounds. Prior to joining Vitae in April 2006, Judy was Director of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics at GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences, a $3 billion business of GE Healthcare focused on medical diagnostics, drug discovery and protein...
S. Kamal Jonnalagadda
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Margaret Kasschau
Professor of Biology
Osmotic change is an environmental stressor which can have significant effects on all cells from lower animals and to cells from mammals especially when they are found in areas of fluctuating osmotic conditions. Early work in our laboratory focused on the effects of high osmotic stress on the cytoskeleton of earthworm coelmocytes (leukocytes). Recently we have directed our research to studying mammalian cells normally subjected to significant changes in osmotic pressure. Circulating blood cells and...
Joel Kauffman
Professor of Chemistry (Emeritus)
One of my principal research areas of interest is in medicinal chemistry, where the focus is on the design and synthesis of potential new drugs with anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties. A second research area of interest is the synthesis of new molecules with defined fluorescent properties. Applications include laser dyes, scintillation fluors, waveshifters, and eye protection. These fluorescent molecules, in addition to having high quantum yields and good chemical stability, must be resistant to the...
Michael L. Kirifides
Visiting Assistant Professor
Eugene Kolassa
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Sheldon Kong
Adjunct Instructor of Pharmacy Administration
Yumee Koo
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
I am interested in the study of the mechanisms of macromolecular interactions, including protein-lipid and protein-inhibitor interactions. Efforts are focused on the characterization of proteins using biochemical and spectrometric techniques and the development of kinetic and binding assays for therapeutically important enzymes. One example of a system we are interested in studying is the class of cysteine proteases, which are the proteolytic enzymes that utilize a cysteine residue for their catalytic activity. Especially mammalian papain-like...
Darshan Kulkarni
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Writing
Anatoly Kurkovsky
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Joseph Lambert
Professor of Psychology
Fancine K. Lanar
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Ms. Lanar specializes in management development and team-building worldwide. Many of her clients are in health and science fields, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, U.N. Food Program, and Merck Pharmaceuticals. She worked on a 5 year project to provide leadership development and team building training for reproductive health doctors in Vietnam. Fancine lived in Germany and conducted leadership and communication courses...
Thomas A. Lang
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Writing
Michael Latta
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Michael Latta is currently a Professor of Marketing and Management in the Wall College of Business Administration at Coastal Carolina University and in the USP On-line MBA Program. He has served as a Professor of Pharmaceutical Marketing in the MBA and undergraduate programs at Saint Joseph’s University, as Adjunct Professor at The American Graduate School of International Management – Thunderbird, and has taught Forecasting in the Mendoza School of Business at University of Notre Dame....
William Law
Chair, Biology Department
Professor of Biology
Sepsis and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome are major clinical problems, typically resulting severe infections. The purine nucleoside, adenosine, is recognized as a critical molecule used by cells to modulate a variety of autocrine and paracrine signalling pathways involved in inflammatory processes. Our laboratory research efforts are focused on understanding the role of purine metabolism in modulating inflammatory processes. Currently, we are investigating a dual role for adenosine deaminase (ADA) in the regulation of adenosine...
Jennifer Lawler
Adjunct Instructor of Biomedical Writing
Osagie Lawrence Edoro-Ighalo
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Writing
Kenneth Leibowitz
Director, Special Assessment Projects
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communication
Zhijun Li
Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics
My current research efforts focus on utilizing computational and bioinformatics methods to generate and analyze three-dimensional structures of protein molecules, and to gain insight into protein sequence, structure and function relationships. Leveraging and combining a broad range of techniques enables us to tackle biological problems in multiple dimensions. Network analysis of protein structures First project is the development of new tools to aid in the quantitative analysis of the protein 3D structures currently available in...
Amos Linenberg
Adjunct Associate Professor of Chemistry
Jennifer L. Long
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Writing
Anh-Dai Lu
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Anh-Dai Lu is a regular management consultant to businesses, federal agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Her work involves helping clients implement business vision, build competitive advantage, and increase competencies. Her past engagements include The Blue Cross Blue Shield's Federal Employees Program, Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses, Investigation & Analysis Directorate, Computer Sciences Corporation's Federal Consulting Center of Excellence, The Global Command and Control System, Dateline-Health Africa, and Gwalior Children’s Hospital. Anh-Dai currently...
Greg Lucado
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Mr. Lucado holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the Virginia Military Institute and graduate degrees in Management from the University of Missouri and an MBA in Finance from the Fox School of Business at Temple University. He has been a soldier, and recently retired from an interesting career in the commercial construction management business that culminated in partial ownership of a local Philadelphia Construction Firm. Greg currently teaches Finance, Economics, Operations Management, Policy and...
Thomas Lytle
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Thomas Lytle is an experienced pharmaceutical and biotechnology executive with over 35 years of industry experience. During his career, he has held positions of increasing responsibility in pharmaceutical sales, marketing, marketing management, new product commercialization, and executive management with market leading companies, including Pfizer, Lederle, Cytogen and Amgen. He has worked in multiple therapeutic categories and has focused on building brands and developing talent to create high performing teams. He was recently appointed to the...
Madhu Mahalingam
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Ion-molecule reactions were discovered originally in the ionizers of mass spectrometers. Study of these reactions is of practical significance in various fields. Ion-molecule reactions are important to the chemistry of planetary atmospheres, in particular, the earth’s ionosphere. The densities of the different types of ions critically influence the total electron content and, therefore, radio wave propagation. Gas-phase ion-molecule reactions have been used as a model for the determination of biologically reactive electrophilic contaminants in the...
Daniel Marenda
Assistant Professor of Biology
A cell’s decision to divide or to differentiate is one of the central properties that defines how that cell will function within the greater context of a developing tissue. This crucial decision is therefore subject to precise control by a number of different mechanisms. Our research focuses on one of these mechanisms: How the localization of the Mitogen Associated Protein Kinase (MAPK) protein, a central member of the Ras signal transduction pathway, contributes to this decision....
James Maxwell
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Dr. James Maxwell is currently completing a PhD in Technology Management (ABD) at Indiana State University. His teaching, research, business management consultation, and publishing activities are in the areas of Strategic Management, Management of Technology, Human Resource Management, Operations management, Entrepreneurship, and Competitive Intelligence. Dr. Maxwell has held various senior management and marketing positions with Toshiba and Emerson Electric Company. Dr. Maxwell is the editor-in-chief for the Academy of Technology Management Journal. He has written...
Terri Maxwell
Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health
Brad May
Adjunct Professor of Health Psychology
Kevin Mayo
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Kevin Mayo is Vice President for Bridgehead USA, Inc. Kevin has an extensive international appreciation for new product development and commercialization, Health Economics & Health Outcomes Research, Health Technology Assessment and for developing Market Access & Pricing Strategies gained during his 12 years working within the pharmaceutical industry in leadership roles including: Director, Medical Research & Strategies and Head, Health Outcomes Research (Daiichi Sankyo Inc.) where Kevin established the Health Outcomes Research function Head, Global...
William F. McGhan
Director, Pharmacy Administration Graduate Program
Professor of Pharmacy Administration
Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Dr. William McGhan he has been instrumental in advancing research and graduate training in health policy and pharmaceutical economics. He has authored several books and book chapters as well as over 200 journal articles. He is a past President of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science and has served on the board of directors of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. He is an elected Fellow...
James McKee
Director, Graduate Programs in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacognosy
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Currently, my research is focused in two areas, (1) preparation and antibiotic activity of sulfonanilides and sulfones; and (2) the use of the trihalomethyl group to prepare heterocyclic compounds. Sulfonanilides and sulfones were amongst the earliest of the antibiotics and are still proving to be useful today, effectively treating such diseases as leprosy and epilepsy, as well as serving as general purpose antibiotics against all gram positive bacilli and all gram negative cocci. Currently, we are...
Jeannette McVeigh
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Assistant Professor of Information Science
Jeanette McVeigh has worked for a major oil company. She gained professional business information experience at the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. For sixteen years she was business librarian at the second largest public institution of higher education in Maryland. Her second Masters is in writing and she co-teaches a course in the biomedical writing program, as well as one in the online MBA. Among the subject areas that...
Diana Menio
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health
Stephen Metraux
Assistant Professor of Health Policy
Vandana Miller
Instructor in Biology
Adjunct Instructor of Public Health
Macrophages are an essential part of the innate immune system. They respond to infections, tissue damage and various other environmental assaults predominantly by: • phagocytosis • producing toxic molecules (e.g. nitric oxide and superoxide radicals) • releasing cytokines • presenting antigens to the cells of the adaptive immune system The collective term for these responses is inflammation. Macrophges and nutritional starvation In collaboration with Dr. S. Murphy and Dr. M. Kasschau, we research the effects...
Karen Mitchell
Instructor of Biomedical Writing
Stephen Moelter
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Matthew Monberg
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Writing
Cathleen Moore
Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Preston Moore
Director, West Center
Associate Professor of Chemistry
My research focuses on the development and use of condensed phase, molecular simulation methods to investigate chemical problems. An understanding of the fundamental physical laws governing the interactions between atoms and molecules can be used to describe complex biological systems. The ideas I am pursuing are united by a common theme: unraveling the structure, dynamics, and thermodynamics of complex chemical systems such as proteins, molecular liquids, and lipid bilayers. Great success has been achieved using...
Robert A. Moreau
Adjunct Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Biotechnology
Diane W. Morel
Director, Undergraduate Program in Pharmacology
Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Guillermo Moyna
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Broadly described, research in my group involves the application of experimental and theoretical methods to study the interactions of a variety of molecules with their environment at the atomic level. For example, we are currently investigating how ionic liquids (ILs), a new class of solvents composed solely of ions that show promise as “green” materials, solvate polysaccharides such as cellulose and starch. Among the techniques we employ to accomplish this are nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)...
Suzanne Murphy
Professor of Biology
Osmotic change is an environmental stressor which can have significant effects on all cells from lower animals and to cells from mammals especially when they are found in areas of fluctuating osmotic conditions. Early work in our laboratory focused on the effects of high osmotic stress on the cytoskeleton of earthworm coelmocytes (leukocytes). Recently we have directed our research to studying mammalian cells normally subjected to significant changes in osmotic pressure. Circulating blood cells and...
Margaret Murray Thorell
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Writing
Laurie Myers
Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
David Nash
Adjunct Instructor of Health Policy
Steven Neau
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
John Nikelly
Professor of Chemistry
My research interests are in the use of parallel columns in gas chromatography, pharmaceutical analysis by GC and HPLC, and indirect detection of UV-transparent compounds. The components in a mixture may be identified by gas chromatographic retention times, but this normally requires making runs on two different columns. Alternatively, the analysis could be done in a single run on two columns, but this requires the use of two detectors. We are developing a system of...
Melanie Oates
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Management and Pharmacy Administration
Dr. Oates has 15 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry in a variety of positions including Sales Representative, Sales Trainer, Senior Marketing Analyst, Marketing Manager, and Vice President of Marketing and Regulatory Affairs. Her industry activity included pharmaceutical product licensing and acquisition including due diligence analysis, preparation of business plans, long range forecasting, working with venture capitalists and negotiating with investment bankers. Dr. Oates is a Registered Nurse and worked with psychiatric patients and...
Clyde M. Ofner
Director, Graduate Programs in Pharmaceutics
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
Claudia F. Parvanta
Chair, Department of Social Sciences
Professor of Anthropology
Dina Patel
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Lois Peck
Director, Science Teacher Certification Program
Professor of Biology
Angus D. Pekala
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Writing
Andrew Peterson
Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
James Pierce
Director, Bioinformatics Program
Associate Professor of Biology
Laura Pizzi
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Laura is a pharmacist by training, but for the past 10 years has worked as a researcher on issues related to healthcare costs and outcomes. She presently leads a group of six researchers who are dedicated to this topic at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. She frequently speaks to students and professional groups and recently testified before the U.S. Congress regarding the costs of anemia treatment in patients receiving dialysis. She has authored numerous publications...
Laura Pontiggia
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Vojislava Pophristic
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Research interests of my group focus on the application of computational chemistry methods to study various aspects of biochemical, organic, and inorganic systems. We combine accurate quantum chemistry and ab initio molecular dynamics methods with classical molecular dynamics techniques, which can provide a unique perspective of chemical problems. Metal Ion Solvation Metal cations play versatile roles in systems ranging from geochemical structures to human organism. Common to many scientific problems and efforts related to metal cation...
John Porter
Director, Cell Biology & Biotechnology Program
Professor of Biology
Research Professor of Pharmacognosy
We work at the interface among cell biology, biotechnology and natural products biology/chemistry. We are actively pursuing alternate sources for known medicinal compounds, discovery of novel medicinal compounds, and application of natural products to specific targets for antimicrobial therapy. Alternate sources of natural products We work with various fungi and transformed plant roots that can produce impressive arrays and quantities of medicinal natural products. We are investigating the production of podophyllotoxin, precursor to several anticancer...
Aniruddha M. Railkar
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
JoAnne Reifsnyder
Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health
William J. Reilly
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Bill Reilly has 20 + years experience in formulation research, research management, industrial pharmacy education, project management and consulting. He is the recipient of 4 US/international patents for new excipients or drug delivery. For the last 5 years, Mr. Reilly has consulted in the pharmaceutical industry, both domestically and internationally, on topics of cGMP’s, formulation development, scale-up and technology transfer and the regulatory aspects impacting these areas. Bill is a Past Chairman of the Philadelphia...
Linda A Robinson
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Charles Rosenberg
Adjunct Instructor of Health Policy
Glenn Rosenthal
Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Business
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Bruce Rosenthal
Director, Pharmaceutical Business Graduate Programs
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Joseph Ruane
Adjunct Instructor of Health Psychology
Professor of Sociology and Health Policy
Michael Rudman
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Writing
Frederick T. Schaefer
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Modification of solvent dynamics by dissolved polymer in solutions has been documented. This phenomenon has implication for analytical techniques where polymer properties are derived from solution properties via the assumption that the solvent is a Newtonian continuum with the properties related only to those of the pure solvent. Based on the premise that interactions between molecules of greatly different size must occur on the spatial scale of the smaller molecules studies of the solution properties...
Ruth Schemm
Interim Graduate Program Director for Public Health
Professor of Occupational Therapy
Professor of Health Policy
Brian Seal
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Jeffery Slemrod
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Robert Smith
Assistant Professor of Biology
Plant tissue culture as a means of secondary metabolite production. Current projects include promotion and evaluation of taxane production in Taxus media cv Hicksii. I also work on developing models for organogenesis and embryogenesis in plant tissue culture. A new focus is development of effective screening procedures for antihelminthic testing of crude plant extracts using Caenorhabditis elegans as the test organism.
Marilyn Dix Smith
Adjunct Instructor of Pharmacy Administration
Julian Snow
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Relationships between protein structure and function have long been studied with a variety of techniques. Scanning calorimetry (DSC) and its newer cousin, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), are capable of yielding a wealth of thermodynamic information about the structures of these macromolecules. These techniques, along with fluorescence and UV-VIS spectroscopy, are used in this lab to study structural properties of exchangeable serum apolipoproteins (apo-A, apo-E) associated with high-density lipoprotein (HDL). Since HDL is known to be...
Sarah Spinler
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Nick Spring
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Eric Stanek
Adjunct Instructor of Pharmacy Administration
Richard Stefanacci
Founding Executive Director, Health Policy Institute
Associate Professor of Health Policy
Berta Strulovici
Adjunct Professor of Biophysics
William L. Studt
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Writing
Joan B. Tarloff
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Ruy Tchao
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Shanaz Tejani-Butt
Associate Dean, College of Graduate Studies
Director, Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Charles J. Thoman
Professor of Chemistry (Emeritus)
My research has involved the chemistry and biochemistry of Polysorbate 80 (Tween 80), one of the major surfactants and solubilizing agents used widely in many industrial applications. At present, our emphasis is on the synthesis of derivatives that can be used to deionize aqueous solutions and as probes for specific ions in various solutions, including the inside of cells. The second has to do with the synthesis of potential anticancer and antiviral agents.
Michael S. Thomas
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Michael currently focuses his professional energies on a marketing consulting company that specializes in assisting Fortune 100 healthcare clients. It also assists clients in a variety of other industries. Before co- founding The Marketing Connexion, Michael held positions of increasing responsibility with Johnson & Johnson over a span of 20 years. Michael joined Johnson & Johnson in 1978 as a financial analyst with Ethicon Inc. Following a short but distinguished career in Finance, which included...
Margaret Murray Thorell
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Writing
Kim Tieger
Adjunct Instructor of Biomedical Writing
Ralph Turner
Professor of Psychology
Vivian Valdmanis
Associate Professor of Health Policy
Lia Vas
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Branimir Vasilic
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Medical Physics
Lili Velez
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Writing
Reynold Verret
Dean, Misher College of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Biochemistry
Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity We have been investigating the mechanisms of T-cell-mediated cytotoxicity. CTLs secrete a cytolysin, perforin, which forms channels in target cell membranes, thereby, causing cell death. During engagements with targets, CTLs are exposed to their own secreted perforin. We have shown that CTLs, themselves, are uniquely resistant to the effect of their own pore-forming cytolysin, perforin. We and others have shown that T cells elaborate factors that enable them to lyse target cells without...
Phil Vinall
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Writing
Theresa Walls
Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy
Mei-Ling Wang
Associate Professor of International Health and Communication
Charles Wang
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Writing
Robin Watkins
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Mark G. Weiner
Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy
Douglas Weschules
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Health
Lorraine Whitman
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Writing
Rasanjali Wickrema
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy
Rodney Wigent
Dean, College of Graduate Studies
Research Professor of Pharmaceutics
Professor of Chemistry
My research interests focus on three basic areas—solution thermodynamics, physical biochemistry, and, pharmaceutics. Solution Thermodynamics A large number of waters of hydration (20–60) have been found for precipitates of tetra n-butylammonium (TBA) halides at temperatures ranging from 5 to 25ºC. It is believed that these clathrates may exist in solution. Studies of these solutions as a function of concentration and temperature may serve to model similar interactions that may occur in aqueous solutions of important...
Mark Winnett
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Mark is currently working for a unit of Johnson & Johnson. His role includes managing the research and development of new monoclonal antibodies, decision analysis, and portfolio management support. Therapeutic areas include: cancer, diseases of the immune and metabolic systems. Previous roles include Associate Director of Project Management at Stressgen Biotechnologies Inc., an R&D administrator at the University of Victoria, and a top performing sales representative for Applied Biosystems. In addition to his educational credentials,...
Micheal Wolfe
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Michael Wolfe has over thirty years of experience in public accounting, management consulting and private industry. He is a practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with Fesnak and Associates, LLP in Blue Bell, PA. He is Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA). He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, The...
Cynthia Worsley Hamilton
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Writing
Murray Zanger
Professor of Chemistry (Emeritus)
My research has uncovered a class of compounds with significant anti-AIDS activity. Using medicinal chemical principles, I am trying to design and synthesize more active members in this family. Other research involves the large-scale synthesis of a key intermediate of adriamycin, a naturally occurring anti-cancer agent.
Randy J. Zauhar
Director, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Shape signatures is a novel technique for computer-aided drug design developed over the last few years by USP associate professor of biochemistry Randy Zauhar and collaborators. It is a system for compactly representing the shape of drug molecules and the protein receptor sites they target. It was recognized by Emil Fischer in the nineteenth century that the molecules central to the processes of life must recognize each other by a mechanism similar to a key fitting...
Donald Zimmerman
Director, MBA Online Program
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Business
Dr. Zimmerman is an active consultant on policy, strategy, and organizational development issues to the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining USP, Dr. Zimmerman was Executive Director of the Center for Healthcare Management Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU). In this role, he developed and led MBA programs for healthcare and pharmaceutical professionals, taught corporate leadership training programs, conducted strategic policy analysis and research, and created the Global Health Education Initiative in collaboration with the United...
