Teaching

2021 – PHAR547 – Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Course coordinator)

Topics taught: Structures and properties of water and biomolecules (proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids), enzymes and enzyme kinetics, membranes, receptors, transporters, signaling, human metabolism, hormonal regulation of metabolism

2015-2020    PHAR546 – Pharmaceutical Biochemistry (Course coordinator)

Topics taught: Structures and properties of water and biomolecules (proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids), enzymes and enzyme kinetics, membranes, receptors, transporters, signaling, human metabolism, hormonal regulation of metabolism

2012-2015     PHAR551 – Biomedical Chemistry (Course coordinator 2013-2015)

2012                PHAR531 – Biopharmaceutics I  (Coordinator)

Topics taught: Physical and bulk characteristics of solids, dissolution applications, solutions (pH , osmosis, ionization, buffers), Drug stability, solubility, disperse systems, polymers and macromolecules

2012-2015     PHAR532 – Biopharmaceutics II

Topics taught: Basic pharmacokinetics, biotechnology (protein drugs, biosimilars,

2013 , 2021   PHAR521 – Integrated laboratory I

Topics taught: Analgesic suspension, Divided powder; aliquots, medicated Chapstick, pediatric gummies, ointments/creams, topical antifungal emulsion, suppositories, troches, veterinary gel,

2013, 2018     PHAR611 – Integrated laboratory II

Topics taught: pH and buffers, drug solubility, drug partitioning, properties of aspirin, properties of antacids, enzyme endpoint analysis, enzyme kinetics, antibiotic effects, infectious nature of viruses, immunology of the pregnancy test, HIV-1 detection, clinical diagnosis of diabetes.

2013-2016     PHAR818 – IPPE in Education (IPPE8)

This course is designed to involve PharmD student in facilitation of flipped classroom teaching and preparing teaching material for biochemistry and other topics I teach.

2014                 PHAR801 – Special Topics – Protein Analysis

2017                 PHAR761 – Therapeutics VI

Topics taught: Targeted cancer therapies including tyrosine kinase inhibitors