Center for Drug Delivery

Center for Drug Delivery.

The Center for Drug Delivery is a dynamic academic home for investigators interested in discovering and advancing innovative drug delivery and therapy strategies.

Mission

  • To actively pursue industry partnerships allowing UB biotechnologies to translate into economic growth opportunities and revenue generation
  • To foster an interdisciplinary training environment educating the next generation of translational scientists interested in drug delivery and therapy development
  • Be a primary core facility creating delivery technologies for investigator projects and formulate translational services supporting further drug development.

Patented/Patent-Pending Delivery Platforms

The list below is not exhaustive. Please contact us for additional information.

  • Lipid-based delivery systems for immunomodulation and immunotolerance (autoimmune diseases, protein therapeutics, gene therapy, allergy)
  • Targeted nanocarriers to a wide range of receptors
  • Delivery platform to modulate tumor microenvironment
  • Exosome-based nanocarriers for nucleic acid delivery (tissue regeneration, wound healing, cancer)

Core Members

Balu-Iyer.

Sathy V. Balu-Iyer, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Straubinger.

Robert M. Straubinger, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Youngjae You.

Youngjae You, PhD
Professor of Empire Innovation, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Sima.

Yeh-Hsing (Sima) Lao, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences