William P. Petros
Professor and dean
Pharmaceutical Sciences
West Virginia University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Petros is Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Mylan Chair of Pharmacology at WVU. He is also Associate Director of Anti-Cancer Development and Director of the Clinical Pharmacology and Biospecimen Processing Cores. He has published over 100 articles in the areas of pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenomics and early phase anti-cancer drug studies. He received a BS in Pharmacy (WVU), Pharm.D (Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Sciences) and a research fellowship (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.) He has been continually funded as a principal or co-investigator on NIH, private foundation and pharma cancer-related grants for over 20 years.
Research Interest
clinical pharmacology
Publications
-
Hays KE, Ryu RJ, Swisher EM, Reed E, McManus T, Rybeck B, Petros WP, Hebert MF. Duration of cisplatin excretion in breast milk. Journal of Human Lactation. 2013 Nov;29(4):469-72.
-
Hamadani M, Gibson LF, Remick SC, Wen S, Petros W, Tse W, Brundage KM, Vos JA, Cumpston A, Bunner P, Craig MD. Sibling donor and recipient immune modulation with atorvastatin for the prophylaxis of acute graft-versus-host disease. Journal of clinical oncology. 2013 Oct 28;31(35):4416-23.
-
Younis IR, George DJ, McManus TJ, Hurwitz H, Creel P, Armstrong AJ, Yu JJ, Bacon K, Hobbs G, Peer CJ, Petros WP. Clinical pharmacology of an atrasentan and docetaxel regimen in men with hormone-refractory prostate cancer. Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology. 2014 May 1;73(5):991-7.
