Biography
Bozena B. Michniak-Kohn is Professor in Pharmaceutics and Director of the Center for Dermal Research (CDR) and the Laboratory for Drug Delivery (LDD) at the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials (NJCBM). Dr. Michniak-Kohn has directed over 28 Ph.D. students, 5 Masters students, and 250+ undergraduates and the work resulted in over 350 abstracts, 3 patents, two books, and more than 116 papers and book chapters. Dr. Michniak-Kohn has a B.Sc. (Honors) in Pharmacy and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the DeMontfort University, U.K. Dr. Michniak-Kohn is a member of several journal editorial boards, acts as the U.S. Editor of the Controlled Release Society Newsletter and is a reviewer for over a dozen pharmaceutical and drug delivery journals. She also serves as a reviewer for the NIH, U.S. Dept. of Defense, National Medical Research Council of Singapore, and the Dutch Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) ERANET PRIOMEDCHILD programs.
Research Interest
Treatment & therapeutics for dermatological diseases such as atopic dermatitis, melanoma and psoriasis, Physical approaches to enhancing dermal drug delivery, Development of novel human tissue cultured skin equivalents for permeability testing, Computational approaches to predicting skin transport of drugs, Optimization of buccal drug delivery, Pharmacokinetics and ADME studies in animals and humans.