Assistant Director, Laboratory for Synthetic-Biologic Interactions

Justin Smolen’s research focus is in preclinical testing of new drug-delivery platforms that are targeted for localized delivery to increase therapeutic efficacy while reducing systemic side effects, particularly for treatment of lung disease. Mr. Smolen has an MS in biomedical engineering and his background includes characterization of nanoparticle delivery systems for treatment of lung infection as well as in developing polymeric tissue-engineering scaffolds that incorporate gene delivery.

Texas A&M University
Department of Chemistry
Phone: (979) 862-3713
justin.smolen@chem.tamu.edu