Richard Dalby
Research Group
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Principle Investigator
Richard Dalby, Ph.D. (Professor)
Formulation and evaluation of pressurized metered dose inhaler, dry powder, nebulizer, and nasal spray products. Development and evaluation of existing and proposed test methods for inhalation products. Laboratory testing and patient evaluation of novel pulmonary and nasal delivery devices. Design of patient education aids.
Current Graduate and Post Doctoral Students
Tao Bai, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral research.
Diane Doughty
Third-year graduate student; rational selection of programming settings for automated actuation of nasal sprays and metered dose inhalers based on hand profiles.
Feiyan Jin
Third-year graduate student.
Vipra Kundoor
Second-year graduate student.
Wenchi Hsu
Second-year graduate student.
Past Graduate and Post Doctoral Students
Sudipta Ganguly, Ph.D.
An exogenous phospholipid-based lung surfactant inhalation system to enhance pulmonary drug deposition.
Huiping Wu, Ph.D.
Evaluating the performance characteristics of spacers used with metered dose inhalers at low flow rates and when a face-mask is employed.
Yang Guo, Ph.D.
Targeting aerosol deposition in nasal passages - effect of different breathing techniques.
Pallavi Nithyanandan, Ph.D.
The analysis and prediction of functional robustness of inhaler devices.
David Cline, Ph.D.
Correlating dry powder inhaler performance to basic physical-chemical properties of powder formulations.
Julie Suman, Ph.D.
Optimizing nasal drug administration and evaluating in vitro and in vivo tests of nasal bioequivalence.
Zhili Li, Ph.D.
Creating computerized instrumentation and training tools for metered dose and dry powder inhaler platforms.
Ta-Chun Lin, Ph.D.
Evaluating the performance characteristics of spacers used with metered dose inhalers at low flow rates and when a face-mask is employed. Testing nebulizer performance under realistic breathing conditions.
Varsha Chavan, Ph.D.
Evaluating the effect of flow rate and rate of increase of flow rate on the performance of dry powder inhalers.
Shailaja Somaraju, Ph.D.
Optimizing pulmonary drug delivery using spacer devices in conjunction with pressurized metered dose inhalers.
Rajkumari Jasjnani, Ph.D. (co-director: Peter Byron)
Effect of salt selection and environmental conditions on dry powder aerosol generation and post doctoral research.
Shalabh Gupta, M.S. (co-director: Francis Moussy)
Pulmonary delivery of protein C and factor IX.
Susan Sultzbaugh, Ph.D.
Functionality testing used to rationally assess performance of a model respiratory solution or suspension in a nebulizer.
Nancy Baros, M.S.
Comparison of respirable particle generation by two processes: nebulization drying and spray drying.
Aneeta Chawla, Ph.D.
Post doctoral research.