Ashlee D. Brunaugh is a registered pharmacist and Pharm.D. graduate from the University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, where she is now a Ph.D. candidate within the Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Division. She has extensive teaching experience in a variety of Pharm.D. courses as well as multidisciplinary research experience in the pharmaceutical sciences, including protein characterization and formulation, small molecule formulation and characterization, and delivery device design. In 2019, she was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Hugh D. C. Smyth is the Hamm Endowed Faculty Fellow and Professor of Pharmaceutics with Tenure, College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin. He is also an Adjunct Associate Scientist at the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM. He is the Editor in Chief of Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy. He has a Pharmacy and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has been a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and at the University of New Mexico. He was the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) New Investigator award winner for Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technologies in 2007. He also received the PhRMA Foundation New Investigator Award in pharmaceutics in 2007. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed research articles, reviews, abstracts and book chapters, is the editor of 3 books, and has many patents and patent applications. He is the co-founder of several companies. His laboratory focuses on novel drug delivery systems. Bill Williams is the Johnson & Johnson Centennial Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutics and the Division Head of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery at the College of Pharmacy, University of Texas at Austin. He earned a B.S. in Biology from Texas A&M University, a B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Texas at Austin and Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutics in 1986 from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Williams worked 9 years in the pharmaceutical industry in the United States and France before returning to the University of Texas at Austin in 1995. Dr Williams was elected a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in 2006 and a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering in 2008. He was named the Inventor of the Year by the University of Texas at Austin in 2017. Dr. Williams is a member of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) since its inception, as well as other professional societies including the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. He is the co-founder of several pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Williams’ research interests include development of novel drug delivery systems for oral, pulmonary, nasal, injectable, buccal and topical applications, development of novel particle engineering technologies for low molecular weight drugs, peptides and proteins, and analytical technologies to characterize actives, excipients and polymers. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed research articles, reviews, abstracts and book chapters, and co-edited two books in the fields of pharmaceutical technology and drug delivery, including Formulating Poorly Water Soluble Drugs, Second Edition (AAPS and Springer). He is an inventor on over 35 patents and patent applications. Dr. Williams served as Editor-in-Chief of the research journal Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy from 2000 to 2014, and is the Editor-in-Chief of AAPS PharmSciTech since 2014. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, and he serves as a reviewer for numerous other journals.
