Two KU Professors Named AAPS Fellows

Two KU professors of pharmaceutical chemistry, Susan M. Lunte and C. Russell Middaugh, were recently named 2001 Fellows to the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). The two were recognized at the AAPS Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony in Denver, October 21, 2001.

Lunte's major research contributions have been in the field of bioanalytical chemistry. She is a leader in the application of capillary electrophoresis to pharmaceutical analysis. This includes the coupling of microdialysis to capillary electrophoresis to produce separation-based sensors that can be used for continuous in vivo monitoring of drugs and chemicals in the brain. These sensors have been employed to gain a better understanding of the neurochemical bases of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and clinical depression, and to investigate the delivery of drugs across the blood-brain barrier. More recently, she has been involved in the development of microchip-based systems for clinical, biomedical and pharmaceutical analysis. Lunte has a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Purdue University.

C. Russell Middaugh is the Takeru and Aya Higuchi Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas. Since coming to KU in 1997, his pharmaceutical research has focused on the characterization, formulation and stabilization of proteins, nu-cleic acids and vaccines.

Before coming to KU, Middaugh worked as a senior scientist in pharmaceutical research with the Vaccine Division and the Department of Human Genetics at Merck and Co. Prior to that Middaugh was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. He was also a professor at the University of Wyoming-Laramie after he finished his Ph.D. at Cornell.n