Position
Assistant Professor
Pharmaceutical Science - Pharmaceutics
Biography
PhD, Bioorganic Chemistry, University of California - Santa Barbara; BS, Chemistry, San Jose State University; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brookhaven National Laboratory; 20-year career in drug delivery research and pharmaceutical product development, most recently VP of R&D at Oakwood Laboratories – Cleveland OH; Joined LLU July 2006
Research Interests
- Development of sustained release drugs for continuous prevention of vaginal HIV infections
- Development of therapies for severe infant diarrhea via localized modulation of the enteric nervous
- Sustained release of unstable protein drugs from novel parenteral matrices
Selected Publications
T.C. Bruice, R. Maskiewicz and R. Job, 1975, Acid-Base Properties, Hydrolytic Mechanism, and Susceptibility to Oxygen Oxidation of Fe4S4(SR)4 Clusters, PNAS 72:231-234.
R. Maskiewicz, D. Sogah and T.C. Bruice, 1979, Chemiluminescent Reactions of Lucigenin, JACS 101: 5347-5364.
R. Maskiewicz and B. Bielski, 1981, Kinetics of Some Electron Transfer Reactions in Biological Systems, Biochem. Biophys. Acta 638: 153-160.
J. Withka, P. Moncuse, A. Baziotis and R. Maskiewicz, 1987, Use of High Performance Size Exclusion, Ion Exchange and Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography for the Measurement of Protein Conformational Change and Stability, J. Chromatography 398: 175-202.
J. Senior, K. Trimble and R. Maskiewicz 1991, Interaction of Positively Charged Liposomes with Blood: Implications for Their Application in Vivo, Biochem. Biophys. Acta 1070: 173-179.
A. Supersaxo, J. Kou, P. Teitelbaum and R. Maskiewicz, 1993, Preformed Porous Microspheres for Controlled and Pulsed Release of Macromolecules, J. Controlled Release 23: 157-164.
D. Brown, R. Jones and R. Maskiewicz, 1996, Methods and Compositions for the Treatment of a Host With a Cellular Proliferative Disease, U.S. 5,573,781.
K. Roskos and R. Maskiewicz, 1997, Degradable Controlled Release Systems Useful for Protein Delivery, in “Peptide and Protein Delivery – Physical Systems”, L. Sanders and R. Hendren, Eds. Plenum Press, New York.
V. Knepp, D. Lidgate, R. Maskiewicz and L. Gu, 2001, Pharmaceutical Formulations of Nerve Growth Factor, U.S. 6,277,828.
P. Goldenheim, K. Burton, M. Shameem, A. Ketkar and R. Maskiewicz, 2002, Formulations and Methods for Providing Prolonged Local Anesthesia, U.S. 6,451,335.
R. Jones, K. Washco, K. Roskos and R. Maskiewicz, 2003, Gel Delivery Vehicles for Anticellular Proliferative Agents, U.S. 6,630,168.
R. Maskiewicz, 2006, Sublimable Sustained Release Delivery System and Method of Making Same, U.S. 20070148098 (patent pending).
Affiliations
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
Controlled Release Society
American Chemical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Courses
RXPS 512 – Pharmaceutics II – Physical Pharmacy
RXPS 513 – Pharmaceutics III – Dosage Forms
