Dean and Professor
Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health
Sciences, Long Island University
David R. Taft is Professor of Pharmaceutics and Dean of the
Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
of Long Island University. He joined the faculty of Long Island
University in 1994 after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at
the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Taft’s research interests are in the area of
pharmacokinetics with a focus on drug disposition mechanisms. His
laboratory has collaborated with numerous companies in preclinical
evaluation of novel therapeutic entities. Dr. Taft has published
more than 90 manuscripts, research abstracts and book chapters, and
has co-edited two books. He serves on the editorial advisory boards
of Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Development and
Industrial Pharmacy. Dr. Taft is a past recipient of the
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) New
Investigator Grant in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Drug
Metabolism.
He received his undergraduate degree in Pharmacy from the
University of Rhode Island and his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science
from the University of Connecticut.