Johannes M. Nitsche

Distinguished Professor
Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Suny Buffalo Schools of Medicine and Engineering
United States of America

Biography

Dr. Johannes M. Nitsche pursuit his Bachelor degree in Mathematics and in Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 1984. He received his Ph.D. degree in the year 1989 in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He started his career as Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the year 1989. Then he became NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England in 1989. He then worked as a Visitor (guest of Professor George K. Batchelor), Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England periodically over 6 years. In 1990 he worked as an Assistant Professor and in 1995 he became Associate Professor. He then became Professor in 1999.

Research Intrest

Transport phenomena, Bioactive surfaces, Biological pores, Transdermal transport

List of Publications
Nitsche JM, Kasting GB (2016) A Universal Correlation Predicts Permeability Coefficients of Fluid- and Gel-Phase Phospholipid and Phospholipid-Cholesterol Bilayers for Arbitrary Solutes. J Pharm Sci 105: 1762-1771.
Nitsche JM, Kasting GB (2013) A Microscopic Multiphase Diffusion Model of Viable Epidermis Permeability. Biophys J 104: 2307-2320.
Nitsche JM, Kasting GB (2013) Permeability of fluid-phase phospholipid bilayers: Assessment and useful correlations for permeability screening and other applications. J Pharm Sci 102: 2005-2032.