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Mark Kester
Mark Kester
G. Thomas Passananti Professor of Pharmacology
Director, Penn State Center for NanoMedicine and Materials
Co-Leader, Experimental Therapeutics, Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute
Penn State University College of Medicine
500 University Drive
Hershey, PA 17110
717 531 8964
mkester@psu.edu
Research Interests:
- Validates innovative nanotechnologies for targeted drug delivery in cancer and cardiovascular diseases models.
- Validates various nanotechnologies as combinatorial imaging and therapeutic modalities (theranostics)
- Engineers nanoliposomal formulations for the therapeutic delivery of bioactive lipids as well as for pharmaceutical and molecular agents.
Journal Articles and Publications:
1. Avella DM, Li G, Schell TD, Liu D, Zhang SS, Lou X, Berg A, Kimchi ET, Tagaram HR, Yang Q, Shereef S, Garcia LS, Kester M, Isom HC, Rountree CB, Staveley-O'Carroll KF. Regression of established hepatocellular carcinoma is induced by chemoimmunotherapy in an orthotopic murine model. Hepatology. 2012 Jan; 55(1):141-52.
2. Hankins JL, Fox TE, Barth BM, Unrath KA, Kester M. Exogenous Ceramide-1-phosphate Reduces Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-mediated Cytokine Expression. J Biol Chem. 2011 Dec 30; 286(52):44357-66.
3. Barth BM, Cabot MC, Kester M. Ceramide-based therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. Anticancer Agents Med Chem. 2011 Nov 1; 11(9):911-9.
4. Heakal Y, Kester M, Savage S. Vemurafenib (PLX4032): an orally available inhibitor of mutated BRAF for the treatment of metastaticmelanoma. Ann Pharmacother. 2011 Nov; 45(11):1399-405.
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