Thomas D. Schmittgen, Ph.D. is a professor and Chair in the Department of Pharmaceutics at the University of Florida in Gainesville and is the V. Ravi Chandran Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Schmittgen holds both undergraduate (Pharmacy) and graduate degrees (Pharmaceutics) from the Ohio State University. He was a National Research Service Award (NIH) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California from 1992-1995. He served on the faculty at Washington State University College of Pharmacy from 1995-2002. Dr. Schmittgen returned to the Ohio State University in 2002 where he remained on the faculty for 13 years, serving as chair of the Division of Pharmaceutics from 2000-2015. Dr. Schmittgen was hired at the University of Florida in 2015 through the UF Preeminence Initiative.