Rebecca Miranda Romero
Lecturer
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Southern California
United States of America
Biography
"Dr. Romero received her Ph.D. in 1999 from the School of Medicine, USC, in biochemistry and molecular biology with emphasis in computational chemistry. She is a lecturer in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and her focus is to teach and help coordinate the pharmaceutics courses for students in levels I and II. Dr. Romero?s lecture topics have included: Pharmaceutics I- functional group chemistry, acids and bases, buffer solutions, kinetics and stability of pharmaceuticals, and pharmaceutical formulations (solutions and tablets); Pharmaceutics II - aerosols, intestinal drug transporters (influx and efflux), ointments, creams and lotions, and transdermal delivery; Pharmaceutics III - liposomes, nanoparticles/microparticles, polymers, nasal and pulmonary delivery, nucleic acids. Dr. Romero is also interested, and has been active, in helping to convert the basic science Pharm.D. curriculum from the 'traditional' lecture only format to a more learner-centered, problem-based approach."
Research Interest
analysis of the structure of DNA, trinucleotide repeat DNA associated with Fragile X syndrome
Publications
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Rojsitthisak P, Jongaroonngamsang N, Romero RM, Haworth IS. HPLC-UV, MALDI-TOF-MS and ESI-MS/MS analysis of the mechlorethamine DNA crosslink at a cytosine-cytosine mismatch pair. PloS one. 2011 Jun 6;6(6):e20745.
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Chatfield AJ, Romero RM, Haworth IS. Information Intervention in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. Medical reference services quarterly. 2012 Apr 1;31(2):188-201.
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Romero RM, Rojsittisak P, Haworth IS. Electrophoretic mobility of duplex DNA crossâ€linked by mechlorethamine at a cytosine–cytosine mismatch pair. Electrophoresis. 2013 Mar 1;34(6):917-24.
