Participating Schools

This proposal represents a joint effort by Faculty at Rutgers University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and The University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, to achieve a synthesis of Engineering, Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Food Science (Nutraceutics program) to develop a new program in Nanopharmaceutical Engineering and Science.

Competitive research and education in nanopharmaceutical product and process development require an intimate synthesis of engineering, chemistry, and pharmaceutics. Drug products consist of multiple materials structured in a precise, designed to deliver the drug substance at a prescribed rate and in a defined environment within the body. The disintegration and dissolution rates of drugs, and their absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion, are affected by the physicochemical properties of drugs and excipients as well as by the methods used to manufacture them. To be able to make meaningful contributions, IGERT fellows require knowledge of processing strategies, material science, chemistry, pharmaceutics, and experimental and computational nanotechnology.