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Department of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
College of Pharmacy
301 Skaggs Hall
30 South 2000 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
phone: 801-581-7831
fax: 801-581-3674






Faculty

You Han Bae Professor
You Han Bae
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421 Wakara Way, #315
Salt Lake City, Utah 84108

(801) 585-1518
FAX: (801)585-3614
EMAIL: you.bae@utah.edu

B.S., Chemical Engineering,
Seoul National University
Korea, 1980

Ph.D., Pharmaceutics,
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, 1988
Polymeric delivery systems for low molecular and macromolecular drugs and cells
Thomas Cheatham Associate Professor
Thomas Cheatham
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295A Bio-Polymer
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
(801) 587-9652
FAX: (801) 597-9653
EMAIL: tec3@utah.edu

Ph.D., Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, 1997

B.A., Chemistry (Honors),
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT, 1989

B.A., Mathematics and Computer Science,
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT, 1989
Use of advanced biomolecular simulation methodologies to give insight into therapeutic design, delivery and disposition.
Darin Furgeson Assistant Professor
Darin Furgeson
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Research Park, 421 Wakara Way, Rm 311, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA
801-581-7271
FAX: 801-585-3614
EMAIL: Darin.Furgeson@utah.edu
01/01/2009

Ph.D. , Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, 2003

M.E., Chemical Engineering,
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, 2000

B.Sc., Chemical Engineering,
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, 1998
(i)Biosynthetic and bioorganic polymer development for drug, gene, and protein delivery
(ii)Combined microwave thermal ablation and thermosensitive polymer-chemotherapeutics
(iii)Zebrafish for assessing biomaterial nanotoxicity and human tumorigenesis models
Hamid Ghandehari USTAR Professor
Hamid Ghandehari
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Departments of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
and Bioengineering
University of Utah
383 Colorow, Room 343
Salt Lake City, Utah, 84108
801-587-1566
FAX: 801-585-0575
EMAIL: hamid.ghandehari@pharm.utah.edu
November 15, 2007
David Grainger Department Chair
David Grainger
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College of Pharmacy, University of Utah
30 South 2000 East Bldg #582 rm 301
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5820

801-581-4532
FAX: 801-581-3674
EMAIL: David.Grainger@utah.edu

Ph.D., Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, 1987

B.A., Engineering modified with Chemistry,
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH, 1983
Our main research interests are as follows:
  • materials in medicine
  • drug delivery of biotechnology products
  • novel biomaterials for implant use
  • biomedical applications of biotechnology
  • diagnostic innovation
James Herron Associate Professor
James Herron
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108B Bio-Polymer
20 South 2030 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
(801) 581-7303
FAX: (801) 585-5151
EMAIL: james.herron@utah.edu

Ph.D., Microbiology,
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, 1981
Steven E. Kern Assistant Professor
Steven E. Kern
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417 Wakara Way #3530
Salt Lake City, UT 84108
(801) 585-5958
FAX: (801) 581-3614
EMAIL: Steven.Kern@utah.edu

Ph.D., Bioengineering,
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, 1995
Our main research interests are as follows:
  • E.E.G. analysis of drug effects on the brain
  • Response surface modeling of drug kinetics and drug dynamics
  • Clincial bioavailability of new drug formulations
  • Conopeptides as new anesthetic drugs
  • Monitoring of metabolic disorders
Sung Wan Kim Distinguished Professor
Sung Wan Kim
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205A Bio-Polymer
20 South 2030 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
(801) 581-6801
FAX: (801) 581-7848
EMAIL: sw.kim@pharm.utah.edu

Ph.D., Chemistry,
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, 1969

M.S., Physical Chemistry,
Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea, 1965

B.S., Chemistry,
Seol National University
Seoul, Korea, 1963
Dr. Kim's current research includes the design of
polymeric carriers for therapeutic gene delivery.
Jindrich Kopecek Distinguished Professor
Jindrich Kopecek
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205B Bio-Polymer
20 South 2030 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
(801) 581-7211
FAX: (801) 581-7848
EMAIL: jindrich.kopecek@utah.edu

D.Sc., Chemistry,
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
Prague, 1990

Ph.D., Macromolecular Chemistry,
Institute of Chemical Macromolecular Chemistry
Prague, 1965

M.S., Macromolecular Chemistry,
Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry
Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1961
Our group focues on:
  • Targetable polymeric anticancer drugs.
  • Novel approaches to treat osteoporosis.
  • Degradable hydrogels.
  • Genetically engineered biomaterials and drug delivery systems.
Carol Lim Associate Professor
Carol Lim
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421 Wakara Way, #305
Salt Lake City, UT 84108
(801) 587-9711
FAX: (801) 585-3614
EMAIL: carol.lim@pharm.utah.edu

B.S., Pharmacy,
Purdue University
Indiana, 1987

Ph.D., Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
University of California
San Francisco, 1996
Our research focuses on:
Gene delivery, protein compartmentalization, DNA/gene targeted therapeutics, steroid hormone receptors, cellular kinetics, co-activators and co-repressors, transcription factors, transcription factor based therapeutics, nuclear import and export.
John Mauger Professor/Dean
John Mauger
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201 Skaggs Hall
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
(801) 581-3402
FAX: (801) 581-3716
EMAIL: jmauger@pharm.utah.edu