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Molecular Pharmaceuticsincluding an emphasis onPharmacoengineering
pharmacy.unc.edu/moph/phd-programDivision of Molecular Pharmaceutics
Admissions
Admission is competitive. Over the last five years, GRE scores for those accepted average in the eighty-fifth and eighty-eighth percentiles for the verbal and quantitative sections, respectively.
Teaching and research assistantships provide an annual stipend of $27,500 plus in-state tuition and health-insurance coverage.
Qualified applicants will also receive the Molecular Pharmaceutics Scholar Fellowship, which provides a $3,000 supplement to the first-year stipend and may be extended to the second year.
Admissions information at go.unc.edu/pharmdoc
Contact
Philip Smith, PhD Division Director of Graduate Studies [email protected] 919-962-0095
Facilities
• MOPH faculty and students work in 22,000 square feet of lab space, most of it newly constructed or renovated since 2008.
• Genetic Medicine Building: Completed in 2008 and shared with the UNC School of Medicine, the GMB contains 75,000 square feet of the School’s lab space.
• Image Research Building: Scheduled to open in 2014 across the street from the GMB, the IRB will add an additional 75,000 square feet of lab space to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, bring-ing the total to approximately 225,000 square feet.
• Carolina offers outstanding shared instruments and state-of-the-art core facilities.
Director, Biomedical Research Imaging Center
Dixie Lee Boney Soo Distinguished Professor of Neurological Medicine
Non-invasive multi-modality imaging for guiding and monitoring therapeutic interventions.
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Weili Lin
John A. McNeill Distinguished Professor
Vice Dean
Nanoparticles and other novel drug delivery technologies to treat or prevent cancer and infectious diseases
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Russell Mumper
Associate Professor
Division Director of Graduate
Admission and Graduate Studies
Division Vice Chair
Pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism, primarily glucuronidation. Study of quantitative proteomic LC-MS methods of proteins involved in drug disposition
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Philip SmithAssistant Professor
Infectious diseases; drug delivery to and imaging of metastatic tumors
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Sam Lai
Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Development and application of nanoparticle therapeutics in cancer treatment; develop-ment of 3D in vitro tumor models of cancer metastasis that reflects organ specificity
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Andrew Wang
Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor
Molecular medicine, specifically gene delivery and therapy for various genetic and acquired diseases
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Xiao Xiao
Pharmacoengineering
In collaboration with the UNC-NCSU Joint Depart-ment of Biomedical Engineering, MOPH offers the PhD program in pharmaceutical sciences with an em-phasis on pharmacoengineering, which integrates en-gineering methods with pharmaceutical sciences.
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Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery
MOPH is home to the Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery directed by Mescal S. Ferguson Distin-guished Professor Alexander “Sasha” Kabanov, PhD. The center focuses on improving human health by safely and effectively translating new drug and imag-
ing discoveries into clinical trials using nanotechnol-ogy. The center creates and develops cutting-edge, nanotechnology-based drug- and imaging-delivery systems; facilitates drug discovery and identification of drug leads; and formulates and characterizes the identified preclinical and clinical leads for testing.
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Molecular Pharmaceutics at Carolina
Molecular pharmaceutics deals with delivering and maintaining the desired amount of a thera-peutic agent at a target site for a specific period of time. This discipline is crucial to turning new molecular entities into safe and effective drugs.
Our Faculty Sets Us ApartThe MOPH faculty includes developers of a number of novel, patented drug-delivery systems; NIH study section members; entrepreneurs; editorial board members; and authors of hundreds of scholarly works. Our faculty is highly collaborative and entrepreneurial, having applied for eighteen patents based on their research and establishing seven new pharmaceutical and biotech companies in recent years.
The faculty comprises eleven tenure-track faculty and ten research faculty. Our tenure-track faculty members have averaged more than $800,000 each in annual research funding over the last four years.
Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor
Division Chair
Solving problems in nuclear imaging and therapy and in the development of novel formulations and drug delivery systems
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Michael Jay
Debreczeny Distinguished Professor
Professor and Chair, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Curriculum of Applied Science and Engineering
Signaling in single cells, microfabricated systems for cellular analysis
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Nancy Allbritton
Associate Professor
Living cells as drug delivery vehicles for treatment of neurodegenerative disorders
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Elena Batrakova
Professor, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Director for Education, UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center
Developing new technologies for imaging blood flow, microvasculature and molecular markers using ultrasound and microbubble contrast agents
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Paul Dayton
Director, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry, UNC
William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, NCSU
New medicines and vaccines; nanomedi-cine; medical devices; entrepreneurship
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Joseph DeSimone
Assistant Professor
Integrating biomaterials design, biomolecular engineering and micro/nanofabrication toward on-demand drug delivery focused on cancer, diabetes, and regenerative medicine
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Zhen Gu
Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor
Development of non-viral vectors for gene (including oligonucleotides) therapy; recep-tor mediated drug and vaccine targeting using self-assembled nanoparticles
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Leaf Huang
Boshamer Distinguished Professor
Regulation of signal transduction and cell growth by integrin-mediated cell adhesion, therapeutic drug design and delivery
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Rudy Juliano
Mescal S. Ferguson Distinguished Professor
Director, Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery
Enabling technologies using polymers, magnets, small drugs and biotherapeutics to treat cancer, brain and other diseases
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Alexander Kabanov
Associate Professor
Application of radioactivity and radioactive drugs to solve clinical research problems
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Richard Kowalsky
Assistant Professor
Harnessing the power of stem cells and molecular imaging to develop and translate innovative cancer therapies
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Shawn Hingtgen