A. C. (Tony) Capomacchia, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences Office: Room 216, R.C. Wilson Pharmacy Phone: (706) 542-5339 E-mail: tcapomac@rx.uga.edu

Biosketch

BS Pharmacy/Chemistry	University of Florida	Gainesville, FL	1973
Ph.D. Pharmaceutical Chemistry/Chemical Pharmacology	University of Florida	Gainesville, FL	1976
Assistant Professor	University of Florida	Gainesville, FL	1976-1976
Assistant Professor	University of Georgia	Athens, GA	1976-1983
Associate Professor	University of Georgia	Athens, GA	1983-Present
Graduate Coordinator, PBS	University of Georgia	Athens, GA	1992-2004
Interim Dept. Head , Pharmaceutical & Biomedical	University of Georgia	Athens, GA	1999-2002
Department Minority Recruiter	University of Georgia	Athens, GA	2004-Present

Honors and Awards
National Role Model Recruiter Award, awarded by Minority Access, Inc., 2001
First Annual Award to Advance Institutional Diversity (2004) Sloan Foundation Ph.D. Minority Ph.D. Program Mentor (1999 – Present)

Research Interests
Research interests have shifted from luminescence structural analysis to drug and pro-drug development including transdermal/local drug transport of anti-osteoarthritic agents; bioadhesive wound healing formulations for treating aquatic animals such as the beluga whale at the Georgia Aquarium; wound management formulations for veterinary animal use such as treatment of burns in dogs, dermatitis in elephants and rhinoceros.

Administrative work for the last ten years has centered on graduate student recruiting and funding. Minority recruitment, funding and retention have been pursued with funds from the Sloan Foundation. Twenty Sloan scholars have been partially funded by the Alfred Sloan Foundation. An NIH/NIGMS Bridges to the Doctorate grant (2002-2006). The grant partners with North Carolina AT&T University (NCAT) to train/fund minority physical scientists at the MS level there with subsequent matriculation to UGA to pursue a doctorate in the biomedical sciences. The doctorate is partially funded by the UGA Graduate School. Five NCAT students/year are currently being trained.

Representative Publications
R. Wooley, B. Richie, D. Kemp, A.C. Capomacchia, Methods and Compositions for Promoting Wound Healing, US Patent Application Publication No.US2007/0003508 A1, 2007.

S. Garner, B. Johnson-Israel, T. Abney, P. Azadi, and A.C. Capomacchia, Preleminary Studies on Transdermal Permeability of N-acetyl-Glucosamine (NAG): A Glucosamine Metabolite, Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, 2007, 12:1-6.

X. Yuan and A.C. Capomacchia, The Binary Eutectic of NSAIDs and Two Phase Liquid System for Enhanced Membrane Permeation, Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, 2005, 1:1-10.

A.C. Capomacchia, S. T. Garner, Challenges of Recruiting American Minority Students: The Coach Model, American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 2004 68 (4): 89.

B.W. Ritchi, A. C. Capomacchia, R. E. Wooley, United States Patent Application Publication US 2004/0151765 A1, Methods and Composition for Wound Management, 2004.