Doctor of Pharmacy

College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, 1978
Lexington, Kentucky

Bachelor of Science

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, 1975
Boston, Massachusetts

Residency

University of Kentucky Medical Center, 1975 to 1978
Lexington, Kentucky

Effects of disease (infectious disease and trauma) on altered physiologic states (i.e., aging and obesity) and the expression and regulation of drug metabolizing enzymes (i.e., cytochrome P450, glucuronosul transferase, and glutathione transferase).

Robert A. "Bob" Blouin is the Vaughn and Nancy Bryson Distinguished Professor and dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina.

Before coming to UNC in July of 2003, he was a  faculty member and administrator at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy from 1978 to 2003. Dean Blouin last served as professor and associate dean for research and graduate education from 1997 to 2003 at the UK College of Pharmacy. His responsibilities as associate dean included overseeing the development and expansion of the Center for Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, a multimillion-dollar cGMP drug formulation and manufacturing facility. As the executive director of the Office for Economic Development and Innovations Management, he served as the College of Pharmacy representative on all issues external to the University of Kentucky and those relating to economic development of the pharmaceutical sciences. He represented the college on several statewide biotechnology initiatives and has worked to advance faculty-based intellectual property.