Faculty – Pharmaceutics
Clyde M. Ofner III
BS, PhD (Temple)
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
Director, Graduate Program in Pharmaceutics
Phone: 215.596.8881
E-mail: c.ofner@usp.edu
Research: natural polymer conjugates of drugs for cellular and tumor delivery; controlled drug release from proteinaceous microspheres
Adeboye Adejare
BS, MS (Iowa); PhD (Ohio State)
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chair, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Director, Graduate Program in Pharmacology and Toxicology
Phone: 215.596.8944
E-mail: a.adejar@usp.edu
Research: mechanisms of neurodegeneration; drug targeting; pharmaceutical profiling; chemistry of fluoroaromatic compounds
Bin Chen
BS, MS (Nanjing, China); PhD (Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium)
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Phone: 215.596.7481
E-mail: b.chen@usp.edu
Research: effects and mechanisms of photodynamic tumor vascular targeting; synthesis and evaluation of novel optical molecular probes for tumor imaging and targeting.
Russell J. DiGate
BA, MS, PhD (University of Rochester)
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Provost
Phone: 215.596.8805
E-mail: r.digate@usp.edu
Research: role of DNA helicases and topoisomerases in DNA metabolism; design and synthesis of novel antibiotics that target DNA topoisomerases
Anil P. D’mello
BPharm (Bombay); PhD (Pittsburgh)
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Phone: 215.596.8941
E-mail: a.dmello@usp.edu
Research: prenatal stress, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and the origin of disease; effect of disease states on drug pharmacokinetics; microencapsulation of enzymes and cells for use as artificial organs
Pardeep K. Gupta
BPharm, MPharm (Panjab); MS (Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science); PhD (Wisconsin)
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
Phone: 215.895.1141
E-mail: p.gupta@usp.edu
Research: peptide and protein delivery systems; interaction of peptides and proteins with biomembranes
S. (Kamal) Jonnalagadda
BPharm (Birla, India); PhD (Nebraska)
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Phone: 215.596.8942
E-mail: k.jonnal@usp.edu
Research: biomaterials; design of biodegradable delivery systems for macromolecules; physical characterization of biodegradable polymers
Zhiyu Li
BS (Nakai, China); MS (Science and Technology, China);
PhD (Maryland)
Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Phone: 215.596.8943
E-mail: zh.li@usp.edu
Research: design and engineering protein-based carriers for drug formulation, targeting, and delivery; protein and nucleic acid drug delivery
Jeffery C. Moore
BS (Drexel)
Instructor in Pharmaceutics
Manager, Industrial Pharmacy Laboratory
Phone: 215.596.8987
E-mail: j.moore@usp.edu
Steven H. Neau
BS, BA (Eastern Michigan University);
MS, PhD (The University of Michigan)
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Director, Industrial Pharmacy
Phone: 215.596.8825
E-mail: s.neau@usp.edu
Research: formulation development; polymer use in formulations; physical chemistry applications in pharmacy; use of enzymes in prodrug synthesis
Roger L. Schnaare
BS (St. Louis College of Pharmacy); MS, PhD (Purdue)
Professor Emeritus of Pharmacy
Edwin T. Sugita
BS, MS, PhD (Purdue)
Professor Emeritus of Pharmacy
Rodney J. Wigent
BS, MS, PhD (Michigan Tech)
Research Professor of Pharmaceutics
Dean, College of Graduate Studies
Phone: 215.596.8974
E-mail: r.wigent@usp.edu
Research: thermodynamic properties of water and aqueous solutions; physical chemical properties and characterization of drug excipients; effect of drug binding on DNA topology
Adjunct Faculty
Arthur H. Goldberg
BS, MS (Columbia); PhD (Michigan)
Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutics
Daniel J. Korey
PhD (PCPS)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Dina Patel
PhD (PCPS)
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Aniruddha Railkar
PhD (PCPS)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics
Denita A. Winstead
Bs (Temple); PhD (PCPS)
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics