Quentin Smith
Advisory Board Member
AngioChem
Canada
Biography
Dr. Quentin Smith is currently a Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Sciences at Texas Tech University. Dr. Smith holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the University of Utah. He 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 Texas Tech in 1997 to help build the new School of Pharmacy. His primary research interests are in the structure and function of the blood-brain barrier as well as in drug development and delivery to the central nervous system for the treatment of brain tumors and ischemic disease. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed research papers, and is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists as well as a Grover E. Murray Professor. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program.
Research Interest
pharmacology
