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Tamara Minko, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics at Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is also an Editor of Pharmaceutical Research and member of the editorial boards of several Scientific Journals. In addition, Dr. Minko serves as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and the American Heart Association Scientific Review Panels. She is an author and co-author of 341 publications (88 peer-reviewed papers, 16 books and textbook chapters, more than 200 conference proceedings and few patent applications). Dr. Minko's research is supported by grants from National Institutes of Health, American Lung Association, and several other national and international sources.

Her current research interests include drug delivery; biopharmaceutics; nanotechnology for cancer detection and treatment; molecular targeting; antisense oligonucleotides, siRNA and peptides in cancer therapy; mechanisms of multidrug resistance; intracellular fate and molecular mechanisms of action of anticancer drugs: apoptosis and necrosis, signal transduction, antiapoptotic cellular defensive mechanisms; bioimaging; use of macromolecules for drug delivery; preclinical evaluation of anticancer drugs; tumor hypoxia; modulation of cell death mechanisms during hypoxia.