Blog

Our website was launched on August 15, 2025. One bonus of having a lab website is that I finally have a space that I can use as a blog. This is the place that I post revision history of my books, bits and pieces behind the scenes, and interesting stories (at least to me). Lab news and announcement will be provided via LinkedIn and Twitter. So, this section is purely An's corner.  

I hope my PK books will outlive me on readers’ bookshelves.

Wednesday, May 13, 2026
I wrote a book review recently on my own PK books. I know, this is unusual. Most journals no longer take book review. The one which takes such type of manuscript rejected this book review since it is written by the book author (me). In this book review, I answered several "whys" and shared some behind the scene stories. If you are interested, read the full article here. Read more..

Bindu Gottam made generous donation to U of Iowa College of Pharmacy

Monday, April 20, 2026
Happy to share that Hima Bindu Gottam, Director of Formulation Development at UI Pharmaceuticals, made a generous donation to our College of Pharmacy to establish Bindu Gottam Fund for Pharmaceutics Education, which supports graduate students enrolled in our pharmaceutics program. Her intention is to encourage women in science, particularly in pharmacy, and to support those who had to work harder to get here. Read More here...

A special reader who decided to become a model (for my PKPD books)

Thursday, April 16, 2026
Two days ago I received a long, thoughtful, and kind email from a reader who bought my two PK books and loves both. He said that he wishes he had these two books when he started his journey in PKPD back in 2018. He kindly offered to advertise my books on Linkedin and said that “I would be happy to volunteer as a model (à la Naomi Campbell 😂)...”. This morning I saw his linkedin post, sweet and lovely. Read more here...

Essentials in Clinical Pharmacokinetics - Book Revision History (up to March 2026)

Friday, March 13, 2026
This book was self-published via Amazon’s print on demand (POD). I make modifications whenever I find errors/typos in the book. So, it is a "living book". Readers would be able to know which version they have based on this history table and the printing date shown on the last page of the book you ordered. Recently, I updated the book (corrections made on March 1 2026). The revision history table is provided in this post. Read More here..

“Do you think AI/Robots will control the world one day?" - Opinion from a 9-year-old girl

Thursday, March 12, 2026
This was written by my 9-year-old daughter as a class assignment (I found it from her backpack last week). The topic is “Do you think Robots/AI will control the world one day?”. I blocked the solution she proposed. “The only way we can be saved is ….” - What are your thoughts & solutions? Read More here..

A photo with Class of 2029

Tuesday, March 10, 2026
A photo taken yesterday after my PK class was over – P1 students, me, my basic PK textbook & squirrel Clint. It will become a tradition of my course as I plan to take class photos once every year till I retire 😊 Read more here..

Advanced Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics - Book revision history (up to March 2026)

Thursday, March 5, 2026
This book was self-published via Amazon’s print on demand (POD). I make modifications whenever I find errors/typos in the book. So, it is a "living book". Readers would be able to know which version they have based on this history table and the printing date shown on the last page of the book you ordered. Recently, I updated the book (corrections made on March 1 2026). The revision history table is provided in this post. Read More here..

A Special Email

Monday, March 2, 2026
About 2 months ago, Dr. William Jusko forwarded an email to me and suggested that “Maybe you could use this tribute to help advertise your great textbook”. I am following his advice and sharing below information to promote my Advanced PK/PD book. Read more here..

I want my writing to be truly itself

Wednesday, February 25, 2026
AI is everywhere. AI intrudes the area of writing. ◆ Some people use AI to polish their writing - the product is like a person with make-up (still you); ◆ Some people let AI do substantial portion of the writing for them - the product is like a person after plastic surgery (barely you); ◆ Some people use AI to write everything for them - the product is like a substitute/surrogate (NOT you). Read more here

A special paper

Thursday, February 19, 2026
So happy that my group has formally stepped into the field of global proteomics - recently we have published a research article at the AAPS Journal, which we used a LC/MS based global proteomics approach to quantify the absolute abundance of several pharmacological targets involved in target-mediated drug disposition (TMDD) for small molecules. The data presented in our paper are absolutely precious. Why? Because it took tremendous effort to gather - the high-end LC/MS instruments in the proteomics core were broken twice… water pipe leakage from the ceiling damaged our vacuum concentrator and the samples in it… Read More here..