Dr. Tamara Minko is a Professor of Pharmaceutics and a Director of Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her current research interests include drug delivery; biopharmaceutics; nanotechnology for cancer detection and treatment; molecular targeting; antisense oligonucleotides, siRNA and peptides in cancer therapy; mechanisms of multidrug resistance; intracellular fate and molecular mechanisms of action of anticancer drugs: apoptosis and necrosis, signal transduction, antiapoptotic cellular defensive mechanisms; use of macromolecules for drug delivery; preclinical evaluation of anticancer drugs; tumor hypoxia; modulation of cell death mechanisms during hypoxia. Professor Minko is an author and co-author of more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, 16 book and textbook chapters and more than 200 conference proceedings. Dr. Minko is an Editor of Pharmaceutical Research and member of Editorial Boards of several scientific journals. She serves as a reviewer in NIH, Department of Defense and American Heart Association Scientific Review Panels. Her research is supported by grants from National Institutes of Health, American Lung Association and several other national and international sources.