Erik Rytting, PhD, MS 
Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology
UTMB Health, Galveston, TX
BIRCWH Scholar
2009-2013
Mentors
Mahmoud Ahmed, PhD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Gary Hankins, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Research Topics
Drug transport across the placenta during pregnancy
Funding Obtained
- Sponsor: John Sealy Memorial Endowment Fund; Grant ID: 67019 ($50,000); Nanomedicine for anticancer therapy during pregnancy (2013).
- Sponsor: NIH/NICHD; Grant ID: 5 U10 HD0478910-10; ($5,171,677); Obstetric-fetal pharmacology research units network (2013-2015) Co-I.
- Sponsor: NIH/NIDA; Grant ID: 5 R01 DA030998-05; ($4,139,785); Bupropion for smoking cessation (2013-2015) Co-I.
- Sponsor: Institute for Translational Sciences; ($29,856); Targeted nanomedicine to improve antiepileptic drug therapy during pregnancy (2014).
- Sponsor: Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE); ($49,951); Targeted delivery of carbamazepine for improved antiepileptic drug therapy during pregnancy (2015).
- Sponsor: NIH/NICHD; Grant ID: 1R01HD083003-01 ($2,498,673); Pharmacokinetic & pharmacogenomics approach to indomethacin therapy in pregnancy (2015-2019). Multiple PIs: Gary Hankins & Erik Rytting.