Pharmacokinetics in Pharmaceutical Dosage Form Design
Biopharmaceutics
Pulsatile Drug Delivery Systems
Biomaterials
Drug Formulation and Stability Studies
Reviewer of Research Papers for Scientific and Professional
Journals
Consultancy to NIH as a Grant Reviewer and Statistical
Experimental Design and Analysis in Drug Research and Development
Affiliations
ACS
CRS
AAPS
AACP
APhA
RSA
Howard University Collaborative Alcohol Research Center
Howard University Keck Center for the Design of Nanoscale
Materials for Molecular Recognition
Publications
Gaofeng Pan, Yahia Lemmouchi, Oladapo
Bakare and Emmanuel O. Akala “Studies
on PEGylated and Drug-loaded PAMAM Dendrimers” Journal
of Bioactive and Compatible Polymers 20;113-128 (2005)
E. Akala, H. Wang, R.
Zhang, R. Taylor, and Adedayo Adedoyin, “Disposition
of Naltrexone in Wistar Rats, Low Alcohol Drinking Rats
(LAD-1) and High Alcohol Drinking Rats (HAD-1)” Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research 29(5);132 (2005)
Okunola, Oluyomi A.; Akala, Emmanuel
O. Design and synthesis of stealth polymeric nanospheres
and applications to the delivery of bioactive agents. Abstracts
of Papers, 230th ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, United
States, Aug. 28-Sept. 1, 2005.
E.O. Akala, “Oral
Controlled Release Solid Dosage Forms: Chapter 11”
in Theory and Practice of Contemporary Pharmaceutics, Edited
by Tapash K. Gosh and Bhaskara R Jasti (CRC Press LLC, Boca
Raton, FL). (ISBN: 0415288630, September , 2004)
Emmanuel O. Akala, Gerunda
B. Hughes and Tracey L. Rogers “Reinforcing Concepts
by Studying Experts: An Integrated Approach to the Teaching
of Pharmaceutics” Journal of Pharmacy Teaching 11(2);13-33
(2004)
Emmanuel O. Akala, Oluchi
Elekwachi, Vantoria Chase, Hausalynn Johnson, Marjorie Lazarre,
Kenneth Scott. “Organic redox-initiated polymerization
process for the fabrication of hydrogels for colon-specific
drug delivery” Drug Development Industrial Pharmacy,
29 (No 4); 375-386(2003)
Emmanuel O. Akala, Oluchi
Elekwachi, Azubike Obidi. “Studies on butyl acrylate
based hydrogels fabricated by organic-redox-initated polymerization
process for the delivery of thermolabile bioactive agents”
Pharm. Ind., 65(10); 1075-1081 (2003)
Emmanuel O. Akala and
R. Taylor “Naltrexone-loaded biodegradable microspheres”,
Proceed. 2003 Controlled Release Society Winter Symposium
and 11th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Drug
Delivery Systems, Salt Lake City.
W. Yin, E. Akala, and
R. Taylor, “Design of naltrexone-loaded hydrolyzable
cross-linked nanoparticles”. International Journal
of Pharmaceutics, 244(1-2); 9-19(2002)
E. Akala and K. Scott,
“Studies on α-tocopherol-loaded
biodegradable microspheres”. Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological
Letters 11(2); 72-75(2001).
