Marshall Padilla – Chemistry
- 2016 B.S., Chemistry, The College of William & Mary
My research involves formulating nanoemulsions to deliver biological drugs, especially siRNA, that treat cancer. Traditional oil-in-water nanoemulsions have a lipid core, which will not solubilize most biological therapeutics. I overcome this obstacle by tuning the drug to be hydrophobic as well as by developing hydrophobic ionic liquids that can dissolve hydrophilic drugs.
Sookyung Hwang – Pharmaceutical Sciences
2016 M.Pharm., Pharmacy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Ireland), M.P.S.I.- 2015 B.S., Pharmacy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Ireland)
2016 M.Pharm., Pharmacy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Ireland), M.P.S.I.My research project and interests are focused on developing and assessing the novel drug delivery formulation for pulmonary drug delivery. Successful development and utilization of novel, safe, and efficient formulation for pulmonary administration can lead to the improved non-invasive drug delivery of both existing and novel drugs. Both systemic and local drug delivery involving less cost, pain, chance of infection, and improved PKPD profile can be achieved using advanced pulmonary drug delivery.
Roger Chang – Pharmaceutical Sciences
2018 M.S., Biomedical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)- 2016 B.S., Life Science, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)
2018 M.S., Biomedical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)My research project focuses on developing fluorinated probes for 19F magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The development of a “hot spot” imaging using fluorine as heteronuclear atoms provides not only unambiguous detection in 19F MRI but also a second color layer which is independent from the corresponding gray-scale proton MRI. The non-invasive imaging methods using fluorine tracers allow us to observe the real-time biological events of immune cells in vivo.
Ethan Hartman – Chemistry
2019 B.S., Chemistry, Washington and Lee University
2019 B.S., Chemistry, Washington and Lee UniversityMy research project focuses on synthesizing new ionic liquids to serve as the hydrophobic component in an oil-in-water drug delivery formulation. These newly designed ionic liquid need to be both sufficiently hydrophobic and nontoxic to be used for systemic delivery of pharmaceuticals.