Past members

(updated November, 2009)


 M.S. graduates

Nancy L. Krinick Polymer Conjugates Containing Photosensitizable Bonds: 1. Photosensitizable Drugs 2. Photosensitizable Bonds 1989
Yil Woong Yi A Thermoplastic Biodegradable Hydrogel Based on Polylactide/PEG/Polylactide Triblock Copolymers 1994
Kirk Fowers Development of a Fibrinolytic Surface: Specific and Nonspecific Interactions of Plasminogen 1995
Peter R. Hart Development of HPMA Copolymer Conjugates for Delivery of a Photosensitizer 1998
Chun Wang De Novo Design of Hybrid Hydrogels: Synthetic Polymers Crosslinked by Genetically Engineered Coiled-Coil Protein Domains 1998
Richard Lu Design and Feasibility Study of Calcitonin and Polymeric Cathepsin K Inhibitor for Colon Delivery 2000 
Christopher Tully Antibody mediated Control of Hydrogel Thermal Volume Phase Transitions 2004
Weiwei Yuan Smart Hydrogels Containing Adenylate Kinase: Translating Substrate Recognition into Macroscopic Motion 2008

Ph.D.graduates

Hung-Reng Lin (Homer Yen) Optically Controlled Ligand Delivery 1991
Helle Brøndsted Hydrogels for Colonic Peptide Delivery 1991
Nancy L Krinick Combination Polymer Drugs as Anticancer Agents 1992
Ping-Yang Yeh Biodegradable Hydrogels for Colon-Specific Oral Delivery of Proteins 1994
Hsin-Cheng Chiu Interactions for Macromolecules with Enzymes: Implications of the Development of Soluble Polymeric Drug Conjugates 1994
David A. Putnam Biorecognizable Polymer Conjugates Containing 5-Fluorouracil for the Treatment of Colon Cancer 1995
Hamid Ghandehari Oral Colon-specific Drug Delivery: Biodegradable Hydrogel System and Colonic Permeability Characteristics 1996
Hui-Rong Shen Contributions to the Study of the Mechanism of Photodynamic Crosslinking of Proteins 1998
Jane-Guo Shiah Polymeric Anticancer Drugs: Design, Characterization and Activity toward Human Ovarian Carcinoma in Nude Mice 1998
Kirk Fowers Biological Recognition as a Key to Treatment Specificity: from Complement Inhibition to Anti-P-Glycoprotein Targeting of Multidrug Resistant Carcinoma 2000
Susan Wroblewski Biorecognizable Lectin-HPMA Copolymer Conjugates: Design, Synthesis and Characterization  2000 
Chun Wang Hybrid Hydrogels Assembled from Synthetic Polymers and Engineered Protein Domains 2001 
Keith Jensen The Internalization and Fate of HPMA Copolymers and Antisense – HPMA Copolymer Conjugates in Hep G2 Cells 2002 
Aijun Tang A Lymphocyte-Targeting Polymeric Drug Delivery System Mediated by Receptor-Binding Epitopes: Design, Synthesis and Characterization 2002 
Monica Tijerina Evaluation of Cellular Responses to Photodynamic Therapy with HPMA Copolymer-Mce6 Conjugates in Human Ovarian Carcinoma Cells 2002 
Aparna Nori Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of HPMA Copolytmers-TAT Conjugates as Potential Carriers for Drug Delivery 2005
Chunyu Xu Protein-based Hydrogels Self-assembled from genetically Engineered Triblock Polypeptides Containing Coiled-Coil Domains 2006
Hui Ding Identification of Peptides Targeting CD21 Receptor and Investigation of the Binding of HPMA Copolymer-Peptide Conjugates 2006
Vaikunth Cuchelkar Strategies for Enhancing the Photodynamic Effect of N-(2-Hydroxypropyl)methacylamide Copolymer Bound Mesochlorin e6 2008
Padmanabh Chivukula

Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Biodegradable Hydrogels and Novel Polymeric Nanocarriers for the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer

2008
Songqi Gao

Colon-Specific Delivery of HPMA Copolymer-9-Aminocamptothecin Conjugates for the Treatment of Colon Cancer

2008

Research Faculty


Postdoctoral Fellows and Visiting Scholars


Visiting and Exchange Students

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