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James W. McGinity, Ph.D. is the holder of the Johnson and Johnson Centennial Chair in Pharmacy and is professor and division head of pharmaceutics in the College of Pharmacy, the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the University of Texas in 1976, he was a research scientist at the Squibb Institute for Medical Research in New Brunswick, N.J. Dr. McGinity's research interests and publications are in the areas of physical pharmacy and pharmaceutical technology. He has been issued 13 U.S. patents and currently has five patent applications under review with the U.S. patent office. His research has been published in journals such as Science, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Development and Technology, Pharmaceutical Research, International Journal of Pharmaceutics and the Journal of Microencapsulation. He has been the U.S. Editor for the European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics since 1995. Dr. McGinity has been a consultant to the FDA and many pharmaceutical and chemical companies both in the U.S. and Europe. He received his B.S. in pharmacy at the University of Queensland, Australia, and his Ph.D. in physical pharmacy from the University of Iowa. | 