Dr. Patrick J. Sinko is a Pharmacist and a Pharmaceutical Scientist at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He is a Distinguished Professor, and the Parke-Davis Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. Dr. Sinko served as Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics in the School of Pharmacy (1998-2008) and Associate Vice President for Research (2007-2018) in the Office of Research and Economic Development for Rutgers University. Dr. Sinko was elected Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011), the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (2003), the Controlled Release Society (2017), and the National Academy of Inventors (2023). Dr. Sinko currently serves as the Immediate Past President of AAPS. He was also elected to the AAAS Council and the Board of Scientific Advisors of the Controlled Release Society. Dr. Sinko has served on numerous scientific advisory and review panels in the United States and Europe. He is the Editor of Martin’s Physical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Editions) and is on the Editorial Advisory Board for numerous journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief for Pharmaceutics. Dr. Sinko has authored or co-authored over 540 publications, including research papers, abstracts, and book chapters (h-index = 67). He is the Principal Investigator of an active research laboratory focusing on biopharmaceutics, pharmaceutical formulations, and molecular-, nano-, and micro-scale drug delivery. The NIH has continuously funded his lab for over 30 years. During his career, Dr. Sinko has received several awards for his teaching and research, including the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research and the highly selective National Institutes of Health FIRST and MERIT Awards.

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