Microparticulate drug delivery systems; pharmaceutical aerosols

Recent publications on PubMed

Following postdoctoral study (University of Kentucky, 1984-1988), Dr. Hickey joined the Pharmaceutics faculty, University of Illinois-Chicago. He has been on faculty at UNC since 1993. Dr. Hickey has published over 100 papers and chapters in the pharmaceutical and biomedical literature, has edited two texts on pharmaceutical inhalation aerosols, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Biology of the United Kingdom. He is president and CEO of Cirrus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and a member of the scientific advisory boards of numerous companies and scientific journals. Dr. Hickey supervises a multidisciplinary group studying aerosol drug delivery to and disposition in the lungs, with focus on novel approaches to the treatment of lung diseases.