Rodney J. Y. Ho

Rodney J. Y. Ho is the Milo Gibaldi Endowed Professor of Pharmaceutics and Director of the DNA Sequencing and Gene Analysis Center at UW. Rodney has extensive experience in areas of neuropharmacology, lipid chemistry and translational medicine. He has written over 90 original research publications, 20 book chapters and two textbooks on drug delivery. Rodney’s research contributed to the development of the Pressurized Olfactory Delivery (POD) device, which helps deliver drug molecules beyond the blood-brain barrier and into the central nervous system. In 2008 Rodney founded Impel NeuroPharma, where he continues to chair their scientific advisory board. Rodney is also an inventor on six patents and numerous patent disclosures related to drug delivery and drug formulation.