Kinam Park, Ph.D. Professor of Pharmaceutics Showalter Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering Phone: (765) 463-1989 Ext. 115 Fax: (765) 497-7290 E-mail: kpark@purdue.edu Personal webpage: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~kpark/ Full directory listing

Specialization: Microfabrication of particles for drug delivery; surface coating for drug-eluting stents; hydrotropic polymer micelles for delivery of poorly soluble drugs; fast dissolving tablets; superporous hydrogels

Education

Research: Microfabrication of particles for drug delivery; surface coating for drug-eluting stents; hydrotropic polymer micelles for delivery of poorly soluble drugs; fast dissolving tablets; superporous hydrogels

• Microfabrication of particles for drug delivery
• Surface coating for drug-eluting stents
• Hydrotropic polymer micelles for delivery of poorly soluble drugs
• Fast dissolving tablets
• Superporous hydrogels

Representative Publications

Sang Cheon Lee, Kang Moo Huh, Jaehwi Lee, Yong Woo Cho, Raymond E. Galinsky, and Kinam Park: Hydrotropic Polymeric Micelles for Enhanced Paclitaxel Solubility: In Vitro and In Vivo Characterization, Biomacromolecules, 8: 202-208, 2007.

Kinam Park: Nanotechnology: What it can do for drug delivery, J. Control. Release, 120: 1-3, 2007.

Eunah Kang, Joshua Robinson, and Kinam Park, and Ji-Xin Cheng: Paclitaxel distribution in poly(ethylene glycol) / poly(lactide-coglycolic acid) blends and its release visualized by coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy, J. Control. Release, 122: 261-268, 2007.

Somali Chaterji, Il Keun Kwon, and Kinam Park: Smart Polymeric Gels: Redefining the Limits of Biomedical Devices, Prog. Polym. Sci., 32: 1083-1122, 2007.

Connie Snider, Sang-Youp Lee, Yoon Yeo, G�©rald J. Gr�©gori, J. Paul Robinson, and Kinam Park: Microenvironment-controlled encapsulation (MiCE) process: effects of PLGA concentration, flow rate, and collection method on microcapsule size and morphology, Pharm. Res., 25: 5-15, 2007.

Kang Moo Huh, Hyun Soo Mi, Sang Cheon Lee, Hong Jae Lee, Sungwon Kim, Kinam Park: A new hydrotropic block copolymer micelle system for aqueous solubilization of paclitaxel, J. Control. Release, 126: 122-129, 2008.

Hongtao Chen, Sungwon Kim, Li Li, Shuyi Wang, Kinam Park, Ji-Xin Cheng: Release of Hydrophobic Molecules from Polymer Micelles into Cell Membranes Revealed by F�¶rster Resonance Energy Transfer Imaging, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105 (18): 6596-6601, 2008.

Eunah Kang, Haifeng Wang, Il Keun Kwon, Young-Ho Song, Kalpana Kamath, Kathleen M. Miller, James Barry, Ji-Xin Cheng, and Kinam Park: Application of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy to image the changes in a paclitaxel-poly(styrene-b-isobutylene-b-styrene) matrix pre and post drug elution, J. Biomed. Mater. Res., in press.

Seong Hoon Jeong, Yuuki Takaishi, Yourong Fu, and Kinam Park: Materials for Making Fast Dissolving Tablets by Compression Method, J. Mater. Chem., in press.