ASTeCC FACULTY RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Brad Anderson group (pharmacy)
323-1263 bande2@uky.edu
Study of the barriers to anti-HIV drug delivery to the central nervous system and strategies to improve delivery. Experimental and computational studies of drug permeability across lipid bilayers and biomembranes. Preformulation studies, development of prototype formulations, and early in vivo assessment of new experimental drug candidates in conjunction with UK's Preclinical Drug Evaluation Facility.
Kimberly Ward Anderson group (chemical & materials engineering)
257-4815 kanderson@engr.uky.edu
Focus on cellular bioengineering, specifically how microorganisms can be prevented from adhering to surfaces, with applications for dairy processing, and how cancer cells can be prevented from moving from one organ to another in the human body.
Paul Bummer group (pharmacy)
257-2300, ext. 255 pbumm01@email.uky.edu
Study of lipid-based drug delivery to improve oral, parenteral, and pulmonary bioavailability of poorly soluble molecules. Preformulation and formulation development of experimental anti-tumor agents. Surfactant-assisted foam fractionation as a means of purification of pharmaceutical proteins on industrial scale.
Zhi Chen group (electrical and computer engineering and CeNSE)
257-2300, ext. 268 zhichen@engr.uky.edu
Focus on microelectric fabrication, novel semiconductor devices and materials, Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) transistor reliability, and microsensors.
Lance DeLong group (solid state physics)
257-2300, ext. 282 lander@uky.edu
Focus on the study of superconducting and magnetic behavior of solids at low temperatures, high magnetic fields and high pressures, including superconducting thin films with controlled patterns.
Joseph Fink group (pharmacy)
257-2300, ext. 241 jfink@uky.edu
Focus on law pertaining to pharmacy, pharmacists and pharmaceuticals, food and drug law, and health care law. Regulation of controlled substances and the relation of that to drug abuse is also of interest, as well as public policy issues related to pharmaceuticals, medical devices, clinical research, and science- and technology-based economic development.
Judy Goldsmith group (computer sicence, education policy studies, curriculum and instruction, anthropology)
257-4245 goldsmith@cs.uky.edu
This diverse group of six faculty and their students is designing decision-support software for welfare case managers and other advisors in the Kentucky welfare-to-work system. The group is also interested in knowledge elicitation; expert-knowledge-based model validation; preference representation, handling and aggregation; management of probability data; decision analysis; and anthropologiocal analysis of the welfare-to-work system.
Eric Grulke group (chemical and materials engineering)
257-6097 egrulke@engr.uky.edu
Focus on polymer purification and separation, use of carbon fibers to absorb environmental pollutants, and oxidative stability of motor oils.
Boyd Haley group (chemistry)
257-2300, ext. 246 behaley@uky.edu
Use of photoaffinity labeling of proteins to create research tools for biomedical research and diagnostic purposes. Photoaffinity involves chemicals that link to certain receptors and, by glowing when exposed to light, reveal the location of the particular receptor.
Todd Hastings group (electrical and computer engineering and CeNSE)
257-2300, ext. 292 hastings@engr.uky.edu
Development of electronic and optical devices that exploit nanometer-scale features and dimensional control along with fabrication techniques that exhibit the required resolution and accuracy. Target applications include computation, communication, data storage, and sensing.
Bruce Hinds group (chemical and materials engineering and CeNSE)
257-5507 bjhinds@engr.uky.edu
Focus on nanometer-scale lithography processes, the study of metal coordination compounds for electron-spin based molecular computing, semiconductor interface states, and selective surface functionalization.
Michael Jay group (pharmacy)
257-5288 jay@email.uky.edu
Focus on the use of foam fractionation for the purification of engineered proteins and the preparation of nanoparticles for aqueous-based scintillation counting, as diagnostic agents and for advanced drug delivery.
Barbara Knutson group (chemical and materials engineering)
257-5715 bknutson@engr.uky.edu
Development of novel solvent systems with unique properties tailored by temperature, pressure and composition. These supercritical fluids may be used to sterilize the protein-based drugs of the future.
Robert Lodder group (pharmacy, chemistry, electrical and computer engineering)
257-9232 lodder@uky.edu
Novel pharmaceuticals, catheters and medical diagnostics, molecular computing, simulations and modeling, robotics, and astrobiology.
Bert Lynn group (chemistry)
257-2300, ext. 287 bclynn2@uky.edu
Use mass spectrometry to solve problems in biomedical and environmental research. Areas of investigation include proteomics (mass spectral analysis of proteins and protein digests by MALDI and LC/MS/MS), ion-molecule reactions for selective detection of environmental contaminants, and application and theory of quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometers.
Vijay Singh group (electrical and computer engineering and CeNSE)
257-3243 vsingh@engr.uky.edu
Focus on designing novel thin-film devices with specific interest in organic solar cells, SrS: Cu (blue emitting) and ZnS: Mn (yellow emitting) flat panel display devices, nano-porous metal oxide films, and smart oxides whose properties can be tuned by field or light.
Tian-xiang Xiang group (pharmacy)
257-2300 ext. 261 txian2@uky.edu
Focus on the experimental and computational studies of drug transport across model biological membranes and protein/peptide drug stability in amorphous solids.
Jun Zhang group (computer science)
257-3812 jzhang@cs.uky.edu
The Laboratory for High Performance Scientific Computing and Computer Simulation focuses on utilizing high performance computers to solve large scale scientific, engineering and industrial problems. These include developing kernel software packages for large scale computer simulation of practically important problems, mining large scale data sets, and designing algorithms for efficient information retrieval.
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