College of Pharmacy Faculty
Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Diana Chow, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics
532 Texas Medical Center Campus
Houston, TX 77030
713-795-8308
713-795-8305 (fax)

Education
B.S. in Pharmacy, National Taiwan University, School of Pharmacy
M.S. in Natural Product Chemistry College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University
Ph.D. (Pharmaceutics), University of British Columbia, Canada

Academic/Research Interests:
Liposomal formulation of 9-nitro-camptothecin and derivatives - Formulation and pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic evaluations
Microemulsion formulation of highly insoluble drugs, using taxol as model compounds
Protection of natural and photo-aging, and skin cancer by derivatives of Tempol, and its mechanisms

Courses:
PHAR 5432 Pharmacokinetics
PHAR 5672, Clinical Pharmaceutical Research (rotation)
PCEU 6341/PCEU 6198, Advanced Pharmacokinetics
PCEU 6345/PCEU 6198, Advanced Pharmaceutics II, Drug Delivery

Patents:
Parenteral busulfan for treatment of malignant disease.
USA patent 5,430,057 (1995)
USA patent 5,559,148 (1996)
Australia patent 694141 (1998)
Product of Busulfex approved by FDA in 1999