Professional Preparation

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Honors B.S 1998 Chemical Engineering
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA Ph.D. 2002 Chemical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine, Philadelphia, PA NRSA PostDoc 2002-2004 Pharmacology

Appointments

2009-2011 Society of Biomaterials Drug Delivery SIG treasurer/secretary
2009-Present Bioactive Interfaces REU, Faculty Participant
2008-Present Bioactive Interfaces IGERT, Faculty Participant and Steering Committee Member
2006-Present Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2004- 2006 Research Associate, Institute for Environmental Medicine (IFEM), University of Pennsylvania

Selected Publications

• Kim J, Howard MD, Dziubla TD, Rinehart JJ, Jay M, Lu X*, “Uniformity of Drug Payload and Its Effect on Stability of Solid Lipid Nanoparticles Containing an Ester Prodrug” ACS Nano, Dec 15, 2010 [Epub]
• J.M. Medley, J Heisterberg, T. Dziubla*, “Synthesis and Characterization of CREKA-Targeted Polymers for the Disruption of Fibrin Gel Matrix Propagation.” J Biomater Sci Polym Ed. (E Pub ahead of Print)
• P. Wattamwar, Y. Mo, R. Wan, R. Palli, Q. Zhang and T. Dziubla*, “Antioxidant Activity of Degradable Polymer Poly(trolox ester) to Suppress Oxidative Stress Injury in the Cells.” Advanced Functional Materials 20:147-154 (2010)
• Y. Ma, Y. Xiong*, J. Zhai, H Zhu, and T Dziubla. “Fractionation and evaluation of radical scavenging peptides from in vitro digests of buckwheat protein.” Food Chemistry 118:582-588 (2010)
• T.D. Dziubla*, V.V. Shuvaev, N.K. Hong, B. Hawkins, M. Muniswamy, H. Takano, E. Simone, M.T. Nakada, A. Fisher, S.M. Albelda, and V.R. Muzykantov, “Endothelial Targeting of Semipermeable Polymer Nanocarriers for Enzyme Therapies.” Biomaterials 2:215-27 (2008)
• Howard, MD, Lu X, Rinehart JJ, Jay M, Dziubla T*, “Physicochemical Characterization of Nanotemplate Engineered Solid Lipid Nanoparticles” Langmuir (accepted)
• J.M. Medley, E.J. Beane, S Sundararaj, E Kaplan, D Puleo, T Dziubla*, “Block copolymers for the rational design of self-forming postsurgical adhesion barriers.” Acta Biomater. 6:72-82 (2009)
• C. Garnacho, R. Dhami, E. Simone, T. Dziubla, J. Leferovich, E. H. Schuchman, V. Muzykantov, and S. Muro*. “Delivery of acid sphingomyelinase in normal and Niemann-Pick disease mice using ICAM-1-targeted polymer nanoparticles” JPET 325:400-8 (2008)
• S. Muro*, T.D. Dziubla, W. Qui, J. Leferovich, X. Cui, E. Berk and V.R. Muzykantov “Endothelial targeting of high-affinity multivalent polymer nanocarriers directed to ICAM-1.” JPET 317(3):1161- 9 (2006)
• T. Dziubla, S. Muro, V. R. Muzykantov and M. Koval, “Nanoscale antioxidant therapeutics.” In: Oxidative Stress, Disease and Cancer, Keshav K. Singh, Ed. Imperial College Press, London. (2006)