PhD Candidate in Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Michigan
Ziyun Xia is a fifth-year Ph.D. student studying Pharmaceutical Sciences in Dr. Anna Schwendeman's Lab at the University of Michigan. Her main project focuses on a long-acting local analgesic product, marked as Exparel (bupivacaine multivesicular liposome injection). Her research aims to reverse-engineer this liposomal product, elucidate its manufacturing process, as well as investigate its in vitro and in vivo release mechanisms, to support the generic development.