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Peter W. Swaan is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions across a range of subfields including public health, environmental and occupational health, oncology, geriatrics and gerontology, surgery, and epidemiology.

The scientist has explored several main topics in their work, such as drug transport and resistance mechanisms, innovations in medical education, health and medical research impacts, pharmaceutical practices and patient outcomes, pediatric hepatobiliary diseases and treatments, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, and metabolism and genetic disorders.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Peter W. Swaan include:

  • Quantification of common and planar bile acids in tissues and cultured cells, 2020, Journal of Lipid Research
  • Trends in Research and Graduate Affairs in Schools and Colleges of Pharmacy, Part 3: Underrepresented Minorities, 2020, American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
  • Trends in Research and Graduate Affairs in Schools and Colleges of Pharmacy, Part 2: Students, 2020, American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
  • S-acylation status of bile acid transporter hASBT regulates its function, metabolic stability, membrane expression, and phosphorylation state, 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes
  • Trends in Research and Graduate Programs in Schools and Colleges of Pharmacy, Part 1: Programs, 2020, American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

Their frequent coauthors include Lisa Lebovitz, Natalie D. Eddington, Maureen A. Kane, Samuel M. Poloyac, and Dorothy Farrell.

Peter W. Swaan's publications often appear in venues such as the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Lipid Research, ACS Omega, and Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes.

Best Publications

  • Membrane transporters in drug development.

    Kathleen M. Giacomini;Shiew Mei Huang;Donald J. Tweedie;Leslie Z. Benet

  • ENDOCYTIC MECHANISMS FOR TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY

    Lisa M. Bareford;Peter W. Swaan

  • Camptothecins: a review of their chemotherapeutic potential.

    Hulya Ulukan;Peter W. Swaan

  • Molecular basis of vitamin E action: tocotrienol modulates 12-lipoxygenase, a key mediator of glutamate-induced neurodegeneration.

    Savita Khanna;Sashwati Roy;Hoon Ryu;Praveen Bahadduri

  • Progress in predicting human ADME parameters in silico.

    Sean Ekins;Chris L Waller;Peter W Swaan;Gabriele Cruciani

  • Surface Acetylation of Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) Dendrimers Decreases Cytotoxicity while Maintaining Membrane Permeability

    Rohit B. Kolhatkar;Kelly M. Kitchens;Peter W. Swaan;Hamidreza Ghandehari

  • Towards a new age of virtual ADME/TOX and multidimensional drug discovery

    Sean Ekins;Bruno Boulanger;Peter W. Swaan;Maggie A.Z. Hupcey

  • Microfabricated porous silicon particles enhance paracellular delivery of insulin across intestinal Caco-2 cell monolayers.

    Amy B. Foraker;Rob J. Walczak;Michael H. Cohen;Tony A. Boiarski

  • Design, synthesis, cytoselective toxicity, structure-activity relationships, and pharmacophore of thiazolidinone derivatives targeting drug-resistant lung cancer cells.

    Hongyu Zhou;Shuhong Wu;Shumei Zhai;Aifeng Liu

  • Endocytosis and interaction of poly (amidoamine) dendrimers with Caco-2 cells.

    Kelly M. Kitchens;Amy B. Foraker;Rohit B. Kolhatkar;Peter W. Swaan

  • Transport of Poly(Amidoamine) Dendrimers across Caco-2 Cell Monolayers: Influence of Size, Charge and Fluorescent Labeling

    Kelly M. Kitchens;Rohit B. Kolhatkar;Peter W. Swaan;Natalie D. Eddington

  • ITC Recommendations for Transporter Kinetic Parameter Estimation and Translational Modeling of Transport‐Mediated PK and DDIs in Humans

    M J Zamek‐Gliszczynski;C A Lee;A Poirier;J Bentz

  • The solute carrier family 10 (SLC10): beyond bile acid transport.

    Tatiana Claro da Silva;James E. Polli;Peter W. Swaan

  • Rapid Identification of P-glycoprotein Substrates and Inhibitors

    Cheng Chang;Praveen M Bahadduri;James E Polli;Peter W Swaan

  • Endocytosis inhibitors prevent poly(amidoamine) dendrimer internalization and permeability across Caco-2 cells.

    Kelly M. Kitchens;Rohit B. Kolhatkar;Peter W. Swaan;Hamidreza Ghandehari

  • Human Pregnane X Receptor Antagonists and Agonists Define Molecular Requirements for Different Binding Sites

    Sean Ekins;Cheng Chang;Sridhar Mani;Matthew D. Krasowski

  • Risk factors for development of cholestatic drug-induced liver injury: inhibition of hepatic basolateral bile acid transporters multidrug resistance-associated proteins 3 and 4.

    Kathleen Köck;Brian C. Ferslew;Ida Netterberg;Kyunghee Yang

  • Microfluidic Preparation of Liposomes to Determine Particle Size Influence on Cellular Uptake Mechanisms

    Abhay U. Andar;Renee R. Hood;Renee R. Hood;Wyatt N. Vreeland;Don L. DeVoe

  • Current perspectives on the cellular uptake and trafficking of riboflavin.

    Amy B Foraker;Chandra M Khantwal;Chandra M Khantwal;Peter W Swaan

  • Structural determinants of P-glycoprotein-mediated transport of glucocorticoids.

    Charles R. Yates;Cheng Chang;Jeffrey D. Kearbey;Kazuto Yasuda

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean Ekins
Sean Ekins University of Arizona
Kim L. R. Brouwer
Kim L. R. Brouwer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James T. Dalton
James T. Dalton St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Jashvant D. Unadkat
Jashvant D. Unadkat University of Washington
Alexander D. MacKerell
Alexander D. MacKerell University of Maryland, Baltimore
Toshihisa Ishikawa
Toshihisa Ishikawa NGO Personalized Medicine & Healthcare
Duane D. Miller
Duane D. Miller University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Wolfgang Sadee
Wolfgang Sadee The Ohio State University
Sanjay K. Nigam
Sanjay K. Nigam University of California, San Diego
Hoon Ryu
Hoon Ryu Korea Institute of Science and Technology

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