
Steven C. Sutton, B.S. Pharmacy, Ph.D., FAAPS
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Hi! I am Dr. Steven 'Steev' C. Sutton. I earned my B.S. Pharmacy Cum Laude from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Boston, where I was inducted into Rho Chi. I worked as a retail pharmacist in Harvard Square and Lowell, MA for about a year before returning to school. I met the love of my life in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo. About the same time I earned my Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, our first son was born, and I joined the General Pharmaceutics Group, CIBA-Geigy (now Novartis). A little later, we had our second son, and we moved to Lawrence, KS (go Jayhawks!) and worked at INTERx Research Corporation (founded by Takeru Higuchi, the 'father of physical pharmacy', and a subsidiary of Merck & Co). Soon after our daughter was born we moved back to New England and I joined Pfizer Labs in Groton, CT in what was then called the Pharmaceutical R&D Department. In 2009, I became an inaugural faculty at the College of Pharmacy at the ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ, Portland, Maine. My personal interests include hiking, fine woodworking and gardening.
Credentials
Education
Expertise
- Cell culture
- Genetics
- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmacokinetics
- Physiology
Board Certifications and Licenses
Research
Selected publications
St. Pierre, C., P. Caradonna, M. Steele, S. C. Sutton (2025) Plastic nanoparticle toxicity is accentuated in the inflamed intestinal cell model. Nanotoxicology 19 (1): 69-83.
Jabor, Z. and S. C. Sutton (2023). "Effects of Digestion, Cell Culture Media, and Mucous on the Physical Properties, Cellular Effects, and Translocation of Polystyrene and Polymethacrylate Nanoparticles." Toxics 11(8): 708-720.
Hills, R. D., B. A. Pontefract, H. R. Mishcon, C. A. Black, S. C. Sutton and C. R. Theberge (2019). "Gut Microbiome: Profound Implications for Diet and Disease." Nutrients 11(7): 1613. Awarded Best Paper by Journal in 2021.
Funded grants
Maine INBRE Core Access grant: Incubation of a mouse microbiome in the presence of nanoplastic. 2024-25.
³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ CoP Dean’s Summer Fellowship: Plastic nanoparticles on an in vitro model of the inflamed intestine. Megan Steele, Pharm D student, Class of 2026, 2023.
Research interests
What are the effects of orally ingested nanoplastics on intestinal inflammation and immune responses via the intestinal microbiome?