Current initiatives in the areas of the pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences include pharmacology and toxicology, pharmaceutics, cellular and molecular biology, immunology, and microbiology.
Primary areas of research include infectious diseases, cancer biology, and drug discovery. Our initiatives in the pharmaceutical sciences focus on drug development and delivery, and in the biomedical sciences on disease mechanisms and biological systems, seeking a better understanding of the biological processes underlying health and disease and how to use that knowledge and novel scientific discoveries for the prevention and/or treatments of disorders.
Pharmacology
Research focuses on characterizing protein binding of drugs; protein binding drug-drug interactions, drug stability, side effects of drugs, pharmacogenomic testing.
Primary Researchers
Mariana Babayeva, PhD, MD
Area of interest includes the gender differences in renal excretion of organic cations and protein binding drug-drug interaction.
David Braverman, PharmD, RPh, BCSCP
Areas of interest include stability studies, disinfectant effectiveness testing and sterile compounding teaching methods a pedagogy.
Zvi Loewy, PhD
Areas of interest include clinical research focused on assessing the impact of pharmacogenomic testing on prescribing medications, and applied research that include stability studies and sterile compounding formulation, pharmacotherapy for COPD exacerbation evaluating novel chemical and biological antimicrobials and identifying and characterizing novel natural products with anti-biofilm activities.
Sidhartha D. Ray, PhD, FACN
Areas of interest include (i) Side effects of drugs, Drug-Drug & drug-phytochemical interactions. (ii) Antitoxic and Anticancer properties of phytochemicals in in vivo models; (iii) Role microRNA in drug-induced toxic reactions in in vivo models.
Biomedical Research
Biomedical research investigations at Touro College of Pharmacy seek to advance fundamental knowledge of colon and endocrine cancers as well as infectious disease incorporating structural and computational biology, biophysics, systems biology, gene regulation and microbiology.
Primary Researchers
Raj Kumar, MS, PhD
Areas of interest include Endocrine Cancers, Structural and Computational Biology, Biophysics, protein folding, Systems Biology, and Gene Regulation.
Zvi Loewy, PhD
Areas of interest include clinical research focused on assessing the impact of pharmacogenomic testing on prescribing medications, and applied research that include stability studies and sterile compounding formulation, pharmacotherapy for COPD exacerbation evaluating novel chemical and biological antimicrobials and identifying and characterizing novel natural products with anti-biofilm activities.
Michael Papetti, PhD
Areas of interest include investigation of strategies to treat and prevent colon cancer.
