Dr Heidi Mansour

Heidi M. Mansour, PhD, RPh, FAIMBE, SMNAI

Professor, FIU Center for Translational Science
Professor (Tenured), Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Dept of Environmental Health Sciences
Professor, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Dept of Cellular Biology & Pharmacology

Office: CTS 314
Phone: 772-345-4731
Email: hmansour@fiu.edu

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Overview

Research Interests

  • Pharmaceutical sciences and USP/FDA translational requirements
  • Nanotechnology and nanomedicine
  • Advanced drug delivery systems
  • Drug-device combination products
  • Inhaled medical aerosols and inhaler devices
  • Microparticles and nanoparticles
  • Controlled release drug delivery
  • Sustained release drug delivery
  • Topical skin drug delivery
  • Transdermal drug delivery
  • In vitro USP/FDA performance testing
  • In vitro 2-D/3-D human cellular models for cell viability and drug transport mechanisms
  • In vitro multicellular spheroids
  • In vivo animal models for therapeutic efficacy and PK/PD
  • CNS and brain neurotherapeutics
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Infectious diseases
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Lung surfactant and respiratory distress syndrome
  • Asthma
  • Acute lung injury
  • Lung transplantation

Recent Scholarly Works