July 1, 2025: Funding alert! We have received a sub-award from UNC on an R01 awarded to our collaborators (Juliane Nguyen, Janelle Arthur) by NIDDK to study the PK/PD of live biotherapeutics products in inflammatory bowel diseases!
June 1, 2025: It's going to be a quiet summer in the Glassman Lab as several lab members are participating in internships this year! Congratulations to Kishore Pathivada (Merck), Marena Martinez Correa (Merck), Manali Patel (Johnson & Johnson), and Lara Srour (Fox Chase Cancer Center) on being selected for competitive intern positions!
May 16, 2025: Kishore Pathivada presented his first department seminar on "Half-life extension of fibrinolytic enzymes."
April 25, 2025: Glassman Lab presents 4 posters and 1 platform presentation at TUSP Research Recognition Day! Congratulations to Manali Patel on winning the PharmD Abstract Award and Lara Srour for being recognized as one of the top PharmD posters!
April 11, 2025: Kishore Pathivada presented his poster on "Fatty acid derivatization of tissue plasminogen activator for half-life extension" at the Temple University Graduate Symposium.
March 27, 2025: Ria Singh presented her work on "The Half-Life Extension of Anticoagulants" at the CST-Research Scholars Program Symposium!
January 13, 2025: Accepted manuscript! In collaboration with Oscar Marcos-Contreras and Vlad Muzykantov (UPenn), our results describing half-life extension of Factor IX using red blood cells was published in Bioconjugate Chemistry. This manuscript was the result of a CT3N Pilot Grant awarded to Drs. Glassman and Marcos-Contreras.
November 19, 2024: Kishore Pathivada presented a poster on "Pharmacologic characterization of engineered tissue plasminogen activator derivatives" at the Delaware Valley Drug Metabolism Discussion Group Fall Symposium!
October 18, 2024: Kishore Pathivada presented an oral presentation on "Pharmacologic characterization of engineered tissue plasminogen activator derivatives" at TUSP's GRADSCAN.
September 6, 2024: Our collaboration with Paul O'Connor (Augusta University) received funding from NIDDK for 4 years (1R01DK138150-01A1) to study 'Red blood cell trapping mediates toxic kidney injury following ischemia'.
July 29, 2024: Accepted manuscript! In collaboration with Jake Brenner, Oscar Marcos-Contreras, and Vlad Muzykantov (UPenn), our work describing targeted drug delivery of fingolimod to the blood-brain barrier was published in the Journal of Controlled Release.
July 22, 2024: Welcome Aubrey Elias who has joined our lab as a technician following completion of a B.S. in Forensic Chemistry at Chestnut Hill College!
June 22, 2024: Accepted manuscript! Our manuscript on prediction of the impact of half-life extension strategies on PK parameters was published in the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.
May 2024: Dr. Glassman received the Early Career Award in Translational & Clinical Pharmacology from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics! He presented a lecture at the ASPET Annual Meeting on Physiologically-based PK/PD modeling of targeted nanoparticles.
April 12, 2024: Congratulations to Kishore Pathivada who was selected as the Graduate Student Abstract Winner for TUSP Research Recognition Day and presented a platform presentation on his research!
March 21, 2024: Dr. Glassman was named to a three year term on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
March 19, 2024: Accepted manuscript! In collaboration with Hamideh Parhiz, Drew Weissman, and Vlad Muzykantov (UPenn), as well as Acuitas Therapeutics, our paper describing the first PBPK model for targeted mRNA-LNP delivery was published in Molecular Therapy Nucleic Acids.
March 5, 2024: Accepted manuscript! Our collaborative manuscript with Oscar Marcos-Contreras, Jake Brenner, and Vlad Muzykantov (UPenn) on drug delivery to the blood-brain barrier to treat acute ischemic stroke was published in Molecular Therapy.
November 20, 2023: Accepted manuscript! In collaboration with Nicky Mason and Don Siegel (UPenn), along with Vetigenics, our work on development of a canine anti-PD-1 mAb was published in mAbs.
September 27, 2023: Accepted manuscript! Our work on albumin-drug conjugates in collaboration with Oscar Marcos-Contreras and Vlad Muzykantov (UPenn) was published in Molecular Pharmaceutics.
August 31, 2023: Dr. Glassman visited the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and presented a lecture in their Distinguished Seminar Series on "Drug Delivery Strategies in Acute Critical Illness".
July 8, 2023: Dr. Glassman gave an invited talk at the Drug Metabolism Gordon Research Seminar on "Predictive Pharmacokinetics of Drug Delivery Systems: Are We There Yet?".
June 8, 2023: Accepted manuscript! In collaboration with Oscar Marcos-Contreras and Jake Brenner from UPenn, our work on in vivo loading of leukocytes for drug delivery to the brain was published in ACS Nano.
April 9, 2023: Accepted manuscript! Our collaborative paper with Jake Brenner from UPenn on prediction of nanoparticle pharmacokinetic parameters was accepted into the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.
March 2023: Dr. Glassman travelled to Indianapolis to give a talk on "Bridging the pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic gap for nucleic acid delivery" at the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting.
February 26, 2023: Accepted manuscript! Our collaborative paper with Vlad Muzykantov, Oscar Marcos-Contreras, and Jake Brenner from UPenn on drug delivery in intracerebral hemorrhage was accepted into the Journal of Controlled Release.
January 1, 2023: Dr. Glassman was named to the inaugural class of JPET Editorial Fellows.
September 1, 2022: Dr. Glassman's first day at Temple!