Research works focuses in the area of Clinical Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Research of Immunosuppressive Regimens in Renal Transplantation. This clinical research program has been an ongoing collaborative program with the Division of Nephrology at Erie County Medical Center for over 15 years focusing on the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacogenomics of immunosuppressive agents during renal transplantation:

Current and upcoming clinical research endeavors focus upon pharmacokinetics of immunosuppressive drugs in relationship to pharmacodynamics of immunologic markers and targeted pharmacogenomic endpoints in relation to race and gender of the renal transplant recipient. Research projects may provide the student with exposure to a variety of biomedical technologies including LCMSMS, flow cytometry and Q-PCR. These projects provide Pharm.D. students with an opportunity to explore clinical and translational research projects though a clinical research team (i.e. Pharm.D.s, physicians, nurse clinicians, immunologists, geneticists, biostatisticians, etc.) by participation in clinical pharmacology sub-studies in renal transplant patients with the endpoint to provide safe and efficacious immuosuppression (e.g. cyclosporine, prednisone, mycophenolic acid) among different patient groups.

In addition, this funded clinical research program has focused on the pharmacokinetics and dynamics of glucocorticoids with specific emphasis on the impact of the factors of gender, race, acute rejection, time post-transplant, immunologic response and chronic adverse effects in the renal transplant population. This research program has also evaluated the pharmacodynamics of anti-lymphocyte induction agents as well as glucocorticoid pharmacokinetics during various "steroid withdrawal" protocols during a multi-center clinical trial.