Visiting Scientists and Scholars – Michniak Laboratory for Drug Delivery

Shali John, PhD Rutgers University

Shali is currently working as a Visiting Scientist in the Laboratory for Drug Delivery in the Center for Dermal Research. Shali is skilled in IVPT & IVRT studies of formulations on Cadaver skin, Lip skin, and Genoskin, Toxicology studies of formulations on Keratinocytes and Fibroblast cell lines. Shali has been a Visiting Scientist since 2024.

Julia Zhang, PhD
Aspire Pharma

Julia Zhang is the Director of Pharmaceutical Development for Aspire Pharma. Julia leads the RD team in the development of innovative pharmaceutical products and provides strategic direction to cross function teams on regulatory submissions. Prior to her current position, Julia was a Senior Director, AR&D for Quagen Pharma; and held numerous positions at PuraCap, most recently as Director, AR&D. Julia received her PhD from Rutgers University under the mentorship of Dr. Bozena Michniak-Kohn in the Laboratory for Drug Delivery. Julia received an MS in Computer Science from NJIT and an MS in Chemistry from Lamar University – Beaumont.

Previous Visiting Scientists/Scholars:

Daphne Benderly, PhD,

Senior Applications Scientist, Presperse Corporation

Kavita Beri, MD

Medical Director, BE Skin & Laser Med Spa, Jersey Shore University Medical Center

Aaron Cohen, Ph.D.
from Colgate-Palmolive, NJ, specializing in personal care products. Visitor in 2019.

Maria Garcia, Ph.D.
from Kanalis Consulting, L.L.C. in Edison NJ. Specialties: Membrane biochemistry and
biophysics. Ion channels and transporters. Pharmacology. HTS assays. Visitor in 2019.

Benjamin Goodyear, PhD
Galderma Laboratories

Samuel Gourion-Arsiquaud, PhD

TRI, Princeton NJ

Sharon Haynie, Ph.D.
from Hypatia Technology Works, LLC, Philadelphia, PA. Specialist in drug delivery
systems. Visited from 2018-2019.

Greg Kaczorowski, Ph.D.
from Kanalis Consulting, L.L.C. in Edison NJ. Specialization ion channels and transporters as drug targets and the subject of drug safety. Visitor in 2019.

Arsalan Khan, Ph.D.
from Croda, NJ specializing in polymers and personal care products for skin.
Visitor from 2016-2019.

Michael Liu, PhD

VP for Regenerative Dermatology, Zymeron Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC Research efforts for Regenerative Dermatology apply strategies in Regenerative Medicine to provide innovative products and enabling technologies for skin regeneration by combining expertise and know-hows in biologics, biopolymers, and tissue engineering. Visitor from 2016-2019

Allyson Maron, Ph.D.
from Croda, NJ specializing in polymers and personal care products for skin. Visitor from 2017-2019.

Vinam Puri, PhD
Solaris Pharma Corporation

Jagruti Rana, PhD

From Cosette Pharmaceuticals, NJ specializing in Invitro Bio equivalance testing for semi solids, topicals using diffusion apparatus. Visitor from 2019-2020.

Komal Shahani, PhD

Lead Applications Scientist – Healthcare, Croda Inc., New Castle, DE. Research in the area of colloidal drug delivery systems, including nanoparticles, microparticles and liposomes. She is also interested in research on topical and transdermal drug delivery. Visitor from 2016-2018

Natalya Shub, ME

Sr. Scientist I, Merial, now part of Boehringer Ingelheim. Her responsibilities at Merial include development of new formulations for topical, oral, injectable delivery for animal health. Visitor from 2016-2017

Amra Tabakovic, Ph.D.
from Croda, NJ specializing in polymers and personal care products for skin.
2018-2019