Our Department
Develop the Future
Learn to turn a new chemical entity into a medication that patients in the community can safely and effectively use.
Innovate New Delivery Systems
Understand pre-formulation, formulation development, pharmaceutical processing/manufacturing, and targeted drug delivery systems.
About our Department
Learn more about the department and its defining goals of excellence.
Hands-On Course in Tablet Technology
This postgraduate educational program provides an extensive review of conventional and advanced manufacturing technologies, including hot-melt extrusion, used to develop a variety of novel delivery and continuous manufacturing systems.
Pii Center for Pharmaceutical Technology
The Pii Center conducts interdisciplinary drug and polymer research that provides end-stage pharmaceutical products for therapeutic conditions, vaccines, antidotes, and wound care.
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Meet the Department
Mo Maniruzzaman
- Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery and Research Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Eman Ashour
- Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery and Research Assistant Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Jaidev Chakka
- Principal Scientist
Walt Chambliss
- Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery and Research Professor Emeritus in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mahmoud Elsohly
- Research Professor in the National Center for Natural Products Research and Professor of Pharmaceutics
Le'Tosha James
- Program Manager
Sean Jo
- Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics and Research Associate Professor in the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Soumyajit Majumdar
- Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, Professor of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery and Research Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Md Nurunnabi Nabi
- Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery and Research Associate Professor of the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Michael Repka
- Director of the PII Center for Pharmaceutical Technology Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery and Research Professor in the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Taha Sheikh
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
Cory Varner
- Visiting Instructional Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery
Sateesh Kumar Vemula
- Postdoctoral Research Associate
Yu Catherine Zhang
- Senior Research Scientist
Pharmaceutics News
OXFORD, Miss. – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded some $500,000 to University of Mississippi pharmacy professor Mo Maniruzzaman, with a recommendation for another $500,000 in 2025, to develop a technology that promises to streamline vaccine production.