Discovering and Developing Molecules with Optimal Drug-Like Properties / AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series Bd.15 (PDF)

taught more than 100 short courses on solid state chemistry and pharmaceutical solids and has educated more than fifty Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows. Dr. Byrn has had numerous grants, including one of the first thirteen from NIH Centers for AIDS Research. Dr. Byrn is cofounder of Purdue's graduate programs in regulatory and quality compliance. He is also cofounder of the Purdue-Kilimanjaro School of Pharmacy graduate certificate program in industrial pharmacy and manufacturing in Moshi, Tanzania. Dr. Byrn has served as chair of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisory Committee to the FDA and chaired several USP committees. Dr. Byrn is also cofounder of SSCI, Inc. (Solid State Chemical Information), a cGMP research and information company now owned by Aptuit. Dr. Byrn is an elected Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) and has received several awards for his research and entrepreneurial activities including the first AAPS David Grant Award for Research Achievement in Physical Pharmacy. The Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences has a special issue dedicated to Dr. Byrn. His current research interests include strategies for accelerated drug development and the use of synchrotron X-rays for pharmaceutical research.



Dr. Roy J. Haskell is a Research Fellow in the Discovery Pharmaceutics group of Bristol-Myers Squibb, where he is engaged in discovery support as well as the design and characterization of novel formulations. He received a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined The Upjohn Company and worked in the area of protein biophysics. As part of Pharmacia, his focus transitioned to formulating poorly soluble molecules and characterizing the formulations by which such compounds are delivered. Dr. Haskell's research interests include design and characterization of colloidal formulations, predictive modeling of physicochemical properties, sizing submicron particles, aggregation/precipitation mechanisms, the role of solubility and supersaturation in oral absorption, and the use nanotechnology in drug discovery and development. Dr. Haskell is the author of three patents and more than 30 publications and presentations.



Dr. Thomas E. Prisinzano received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Virginia. He was an Intramural Research Training Award Fellow in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, and is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on the development of novel agents to treat pain, substance abuse and other CNS disorders through the identification, structure elucidation, and optimization of natural products. Dr. Prisinzano has received a number of awards including the D. John Faulkner Travel Award from the American Society of Pharmacognosy, the Jack L. Beal Award from the Journal of Natural Products, the Matt Suffness (Young Investigator) Award from the American Society of Pharmacognosy, the Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, and the David W. Robertson Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.