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Quentin Smith Ph.D.

Professor

 

School of Pharmacy

Email: Quentin.Smith@ttuhsc.edu


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Areas of Expertise:

  • Pharmacology
  • Pharmacy

Education:

Undergraduate: B.S. in chemistry, Oberlin College, 1976
Doctorate: Ph.D. in pharmacology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 1980
Fellowship: Gerontology Research Center, 1980-1984

Awards/Certifications:

-Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences
-Grover E. Murray Professorship

Biography:

Quentin Smith, Ph.D., serves as dean of the School of Pharmacy at TTUHSC.

Prior to joining TTUHSC, Smith worked for 17 years at the National Institutes of Health attaining the rank of section chief in the National Institute on Aging. He transferred to TTUHSC in 1997 to help build the School of Pharmacy and served as senior associate dean for sciences before being named dean of the School of Pharmacy in 2012.

Smith's research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program.

  Research Interests   Drug design and delivery to the central nervous system
Brain tumors or infections
Stroke
Neurodegenerative disorders
Blood-brain barrier in determining drug exposure to the CNS
Passive permeability
Active and facilitated transport
Receptor-mediate transcytosis
Brain-CSF exchange
Transporters
Changes in brain vascular endothelium structure and function
Roles of free and bound drug in brain pharmacodynamic effect