Faculty/Staff details


 
Chris Destache Pharm. D.
Professor
Vice Chair
Pharmacy Practice
Email: destache@creighton.edu
(402) 280-4744


Additional Roles:
Vice Chair for Research, Pharmacy Practice Department

Instructor in:
Pharmacotherapeutics 4, Elective infectious disease clerkship 1, Elective infectious disease clerkship 2, Pharmacotherapeutics I, Pharmacotherapeutic case studies I, Pharmacotherapeutics II, Pharmacotherapeutics case studies II

Biography:
Pharm. D. Creighton University (1984) Fellowship, Creighton University Department of Family Practice (1984-85)

Publications:
Date AA, Shibata A, Goede M, Sanford B, DeBoer J, La Bruzzo K, Belshan M, Destache CJ.  Development and evaluation of a thermosensitive vaginal gel containing raltegravir + efavirenz loaded nanoparticles for HIV prophylaxis.  Antivir Res 2012 doi: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2012.09.015 [Epub ahead of print]. 

Destache CJ, Goede M, Belgum T.  Antiretroviral nanoparticles: An extended drug delivery modality.  Spotlight article. Therapeutic Delivery. 2010;1:383-386. 


Destache CJ, Goede M, Belgum T, Shibata A, Belshan MA.  Pharmacokinetics of antiretroviral release from PLGA nanoparticles in mice.  J Antimicob Chemother 2010;65:2183-2187. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkq318. 


Destache CJ, Belgum T, Christensen K, Shibata A, Sharma A, Dash AK.  Combination antiretroviral drugs in PLGA nanoparticle for HIV-1.  BMC Infect Dis 2009;9:198. 


Kingsley JD, Dou H, Morehead J, Gorantla S, Rabinow B, Gendelman HE, Destache CJ. Nanotechnology: A focus on nanoparticles as a drug delivery system. J Neuroimmun Pharmacol 2006;1:340-350.

Dou H, Morehead J, Destache CJ, Kingsley JD, Skyakhtenko L, Zhou U, Chaubal M, Werling J, Kipp J, Rabinow B, Gendelman HE. Laboratory investigations for the morphologic, pharmacokinetic, and anti-retroviral properties of indinavir nanoparticles in human monocyte-derived macrophages. Virol 2006: Sep 21; [Epub ahead of print].

Gorantla S, Dou H, Boska M, Destache CJ, Nelson J, Poluektova L, Rabinow B, Gendelman HE, Mosley RL. Quantitative magnetic resonance and SPECT imaging for macrophage tissue migration and nanoformulated drug delivery. J Leuko Biol 2006;Aug 14:[Epub ahead of print].

Dou H, Destache CJ, Morehead JR, Mosley RL, Boska MD, Kingsley J, Gorantla S, Poluektova L, Nelson JA, Chaubal M, Werling J, Kipp J, Rabinow B, Gendelman HE. A macrophage nanoparticle system for anti-retroviral drug delivery: Pharmacokinetic, immune and anti-viral responses in a murine model of HIV-1 disease. Blood 2006 Jun 29; [Epub ahead of print].

Benner EJ, Mosley RL, Destache CJ, Nemechek C, Lewis TB, Gorontha S, Jackson-Lewis V, Green S, Przedborski S, Gendelman HE. Therapeutic immunization protects dopaminergic neurons in an MPTP mouse model of Parkinson’s disease. Proc Nat Acad Sci 2004;101:9435-9440.





Research Interests:
nanomedicine, HIV, Infectious Diseases

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