Professor of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery
University of Texas at Austin
Hugh D. C. Smyth is the Hamm Endowed Faculty Fellow and Professor of Pharmaceutics with Tenure, College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin. He is also an Adjunct Associate Scientist at the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM. He is also the Editor in Chief of Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy. Dr. Smyth has started several companies resulting from technologies discovered in his laboratory including Respira Therapeutics, Nob Hill Therapeutics, and Via Therapeutics which are now advancing these technologies for clinical use. He has over 130 peer reviewed publications, is editor of 3 books, and over 20 patents or patent applications. He has an H-index of over 30. He has a Pharmacy and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has been faculty at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The University of New Mexico. He was the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) New Investigator award winner for Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technologies in 2007. He also received the PhRMA Foundation New Investigator Award in pharmaceutics in 2007. His laboratory focuses on novel drug delivery systems and is funded through NIH, FDA, and industry.