Chen Mao

The primary focus of my group is solid dosage formulation development for small molecule pharmaceutical compounds, and materials science topics relevant to dosage form development, manufacturing, and scale up. In particular, we are interested in the behaviors of pharmaceutical powder involved in drug product manufacturing, such as powder flow, compaction, and agglomeration. We investigate these powder behaviors through a combination of experimental and computational tools.

Additionally, we are also interested the supramolecular level characterization of pharmaceutical solids, particularly the multi-component systems such as amorphous solid dispersion. Our main research interest in this area is to combine calorimetric and spectroscopic techniques with phase equilibria and thermodynamics to understand the performance of multi-component pharmaceutical solids, such as solubility, mobility, and phase behavior.

• Purdue University, Ph.D. in Industrial and Physical Pharmacy – 2006
• University of Georgia, M.S. in Biological Engineering – 2002
• Nanjing University of Technology, B.S. in Bioengineering – 1997