Aliasger K. Salem
Born
East Midlands, England
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Known forControlled drug delivery, nanoparticles, microfabrication, chips, vaccines and tissue engineering
Scientific career
FieldsPharmacy
InstitutionsUniversity of Iowa

Aliasger K. Salem is the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Iowa and Bighley Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. Salem's academic appointment at the University of Iowa is based in the College of Pharmacy,[1] with additional secondary appointments in the College of Dentistry, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering,[2][3] Department of Chemistry, and the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center.[4] Prior to joining the University of Iowa in 2004, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed his PhD at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Nottingham in the UK.

Salem was an American Cancer Society Research Scholar from 2009 to 2013.[5] Salem led the Experimental Therapeutics (ET) program at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center[6] from 2012 to 2024 and serves as co-director of the Nanotoxicology Core at the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center.[7] Aliasger Salem was the associate editor for The AAPS Journal - The official journal of the American Association for Pharmaceutical Scientists (Springer-Nature)[8] from 2014 to 2023 and is an editorial board member for a number of other journals including The AAPS Journal and the International Journal of Pharmaceutics (Elsevier).[9] Aliasger Salem has been or is a member of a number of grant review study sections including panels for the American Cancer Society,[10] the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense (DoD): Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) Prostate and Breast Cancer Research Programs.

Salem has received a number of teaching awards including a Council of Teaching Instructional Improvement Award in 2008 and a Collegiate Teacher of the Year award in 2012.[11] He serves as a faculty adviser in the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers.[12]

Salem's research interests [13][14] include nanotechnology,[15] microfabrication, particle and drug delivery systems,[16] implantable chips,[17] the design of gene delivery systems,[18][19][20] regenerative medicine,[21][22] and the development of vaccines.[23][24][25][26]

Selected honors and awards

  • 2024 Elected Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2023 Elected to Board of Directors, American Association for Pharmaceutical Scientists
  • 2023 Elected Fellow, Controlled Release Society
  • 2021 Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 2020 Hancher-Finkbine Medallion
  • 2020 Leadership in Research Award, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Iowa
  • 2018 Elected Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
  • 2017 Elected Fellow, American Association for Pharmaceutical Scientists
  • 2017 Lyle and Sharon Bighley Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • 2014 Associate editor, The AAPS Journal - The Official Journal of the American Association for Pharmaceutical Scientists (Springer-Nature)
  • 2013 Lyle and Sharon Bighley Endowed Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • 2009 American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award
  • 2005 The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation Award

References

  1. ↑ Salem, Aliasger | University of Iowa College of Pharmacy
  2. ↑ "Secondary Faculty (CBE) | Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering". Archived from the original on 2015-02-22. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
  3. ↑ "Affiliated Faculty | Department of Biomedical Engineering". Archived from the original on 2013-04-20. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
  4. ↑ "Executive Committee :: About Holden". Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
  5. ↑ "Pharmacy researcher to use American Cancer Society grant for melanoma research". Archived from the original on 2015-02-18. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
  6. ↑ Experimental Therapeutics Program :: Cancer Research
  7. ↑ "Nanotoxicology Research Core - the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center - the College of Public Health - the University of Iowa". Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
  8. ↑ The AAPS Journal (Associate Editor)
  9. ↑ International Journal of Pharmaceutics Editorial Board
  10. ↑ "Peer Review Committee for Cancer Drug Discovery (CDD)". cancer.org.
  11. ↑ Teaching award-winner Salem encourages active learning | Iowa Now - The University of Iowa
  12. ↑ O'Neill, Tim. "University of Iowa". NOBCChE. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  13. ↑ Aliasger Salem – Google Scholar Citations
  14. ↑ salem ak – PubMed – NCBI
  15. ↑ Forbes - Hunter-Killer Nanoparticle Bullets Target Tumors While Bypassing Healthy Tissue
  16. ↑ Nitrogen-Sulfur Polymers Break New Ground | Chemical & Engineering News
  17. ↑ "UI Researchers Working on Microchip Pharmacies'". kcrg.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
  18. ↑ Special Delivery: Metallic nanorods shuttle genes | Technology | Science News
  19. ↑ Nature view
  20. ↑ "Silicalite nanoparticles promote transgene expression - nanotechweb.org". Archived from the original on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
  21. ↑ "UI Researchers Develop". kcrg.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
  22. ↑ "New 'bio patch' can successfully grow damaged or missing bone tissue". Fox News. 25 March 2015.
  23. ↑ "Researchers Aim to Develop Cancer Vaccines | News | Drug Discovery and Development Magazine". Archived from the original on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
  24. ↑ "Nanoparticles in Vaccine Delivery". AAPS Blog. Archived from the original on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
  25. ↑ "University of Iowa Working on Dust Mite Allergy Vaccine". kcrg.com. Archived from the original on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
  26. ↑ "Pharmacy, medicine researchers get grant". pqarchiver.com.
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