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Dr. Farzana Alam, in a blue shirt and tan blazer

Farzana Alam, PhD

Academic Information

Departments College of Pharmacy , Research Assistant Professor - Pharmacology & Toxicology

Academic Office Information

farzana.alam@pharm.utah.edu

Research Interests

  • Educational research in active learning
  • Cancer research

Educational research in active learning: Our target is to engage students more in the lecture with or with-out using the artificial intelligence, such as, Chat GPT®, Google BARD®, etc. Improving the active learning process has shown to increase the learning outcome of the students in both undergraduate and graduate level.

Our goal- implement active learning in different level of education, such as, undergraduate or graduate level, and design according to the learner’s need.

Cancer research: We have worked with different drug delivery methods previously targeting angiogenesis and metastasis. We have designed oral drug delivery methods of second-line anticancer drugs.

Our goal- Formulating exosomes to target different stages of cancer and working to overcome chemoresistance (including MDR- multiple drug resistance) using effective therapeutics and target strategies.

RELATED LINKS

FAR Webpage

College of Pharmacy

Education History

Pharm D 2006, University of Development Alternative, Dhaka, Bangladesh
B Pharm
2010, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences
2015, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
PhD in Molecular Medicine and biopharmaceutical Sciences
Doctoral Training 2016-2018 Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Amarillo, Tx
Post-doctoral fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Multi-purposable filaments of HPMC for 3D printing of medications with tailored drug release and timed-absorption. H Kadry, TA Al-Hilal, A Keshavarz, F Alam, C Xu, A Joy, F Ahsan International journal of pharmaceutics 544 (1), 285-296

  2. Oral drug delivery systems using chemical conjugates or physical complexes. TA Al-Hilal, F Alam, Y Byun; Advanced drug delivery reviews 65 (6), 845-864    

  3. Oligomeric bile acid-mediated oral delivery of low molecular weight heparin. Taslim A Al-Hilal, Jooho Park, Farzana Alam, Seung Woo Chung, Jin Woo Park, Kwangmeyung Kim, Ick Chan Kwon, In-San Kim, Sang Yoon Kim, Youngro Byun; Journal of controlled release 175, 17-24

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