Tamara Minko

Professor and Chair

Department of Pharmaceutics



Research Interests

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; use of macromolecules for drug delivery; preclinical evaluation of anticancer drugs; tumor hypoxia; modulation of cell death mechanisms during hypoxia.

Department of Pharmaceutics, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Last Updated: 08/05/2008