Masahiro Sakagami
Professor
msakagam@vcu.edu
Areas of Focus
- Research focuses on pulmonary biopharmaceutics.
- In vivo and in vitro lung systems to characterize pulmonary disposition (absorption, metabolism and clearance) of solutes and fluid, and to assess therapeutic potential of new molecular entities for inhalation.
- Corticosteroids, therapeutic macromolecular peptides, proteins and antibodies for inhalation in the treatment of asthma, emphysema and certain systemic diseases.