Associate Professor of Pharmacy and
Administrative Sciences
College of Pharmacy and Allied Health
Professions
St.Albert Hall Room B 3
Queens, NY 11439
(718) 990-2510
shaoj@stjohns.edu
Office Hours
Monday: 10:10 - 11:10 a.m.
Tuesday: 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday 11:10 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Academic Biography
Dr. Shao received his Ph.D. of Pharmaceutics from West
Virginia University. He also holds M.S. of Biopharmaceutics from
China Pharmaceutical University, and B.S. of Pharmacy from Zhejiang
University. After graduating from West Virginia University, Dr.
Shao took a postdoctoral position in Clinical Pharmacokinetics
Department of Janssen Research Foundation, Johnson & Johnson.
He joined Department of Pharmacy & Administrative Sciences,
College of Pharmacy & Allied Health Professions, St. John's
University as an assistant professor in September 1999. He was
promoted to tenured associate professor in 2004. He has received
twice Faculty Recognition Award from the Dean of the college.
Dr. Shao has experienced in various pharmaceutical research
areas including solid dosage forms, pharmacokinetics and
bioavailabilities, targeting drug delivery systems, cancer
research, traditional Chinese medicines, etc. His research
activities are usually infused with innovative ideas from
inter-discipline approach. While he was a Ph.D. graduate student,
he received several research excellence awards from American
Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). Since his joining
with St. John's University, he established Biotechnology & Drug
Delivery Laboratory, where he and his graduate students have been
conducting various research projects which have led to more than
ten publications in peer-reviewed journals and one patent of
nano-technology in the past five years.