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
Professional Other 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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