Alan B. Watts

Alan B. Watts, Ph.D., serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery at the College of Pharmacy, The University of Texas at Austin.

His research program addresses critical challenges in pharmaceutical development through four interconnected domains:

• Reformulation of inhaled therapies for pulmonary diseases (asthma/COPD) to minimize systemic side effects and improve pediatric administration
• Advanced solubility enhancement techniques for poorly water-soluble compounds including amorphous solid dispersions
• Rigorous preclinical efficacy validation in sensitized rodent models of airway disease
• Localized immunosuppressive delivery systems to improve lung transplant outcomes

Dr. Watts maintains active industry-academic partnerships advancing drug products from physicochemical characterization through GLP-compliant toxicity studies, with particular expertise in aerosol formulation and in vivo pharmacological modeling.