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Dr. Tamara Minko is a Professor II and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is also a member of the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute.

Her current research interests include nanoascale-based targeted delivery of drugs, peptides, siRNA and antisense oligonucleotides in order to enhance the efficiency of cancer treatment and imaging; preclinical in vitro and in vivo evaluation of anticancer therapeutics; orthotopic and ectopic animal models of cancer; mechanisms of multidrug resistance and their suppression; intracellular fate and molecular mechanisms of action of drugs; pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; tumor hypoxia; modulation of cell death mechanisms during hypoxia.

Professor Minko is author and co-author of more than 390 publications (peer-reviewed papers, books and textbook chapters, conference proceedings/abstracts and patents). Many of my papers are well cited and published in prestigious journals with high impact factors including PNAS, Nature Nanotechnology, Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research, Advanced Drug Delivery Review, Journal of Controlled Release, Small, ACS Nano, etc. She is an AAPS Fellow, recipient of numerous awards, Editor of Pharmaceutical Research, member of editorial board of seven scientific journals, Member-At-Large and Elected Member of Board of Scientific Advisors of the Controlled Release Society and a member of Study Sections at NIH, DOD, American Heart Association and other national and international review panels. Her research is supported by grants from NIH, NSF, DOD and other national and international sources.