Amal Khalil Kaddoumi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics

Bienville 386

Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences

College of Pharmacy

University of Louisiana at Monroe

Monroe, LA 71209-0497

email: kaddoumi@ulm.edu

ph: 318-342-1460

fax: 318-342-1737

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Curriculum Vitae

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Research Interests

My research interest focuses on membrane transporters, facilitate the transport of drugs and endogenous compounds across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB). These barriers limit delivery of various pharmacological agents such as anti-cancer, anti-HIV and anti-epileptic drugs into the central nervous system (CNS) by excluding them. Research in my laboratory focuses on answering the following questions:

• How drug's disposition and distribution is controlled in the CNS

• What is the role and mechanism of drugs transporters across the BBB and BCSFB

• How to improve the delivery of drugs that are substrate for these transporters into the CNS