Pharmaceutics and Novel Drug Delivery Systems

Title: Strategy in crystallization process to ensure solid state stability of drug substance

Title: Francesca Selmin received her Ph.D. in “Chimica del Farmaco” at Università degli Studi di Milano in 2004. She was invited at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Kentucky (USA) as visiting scientist in Dr. DeLuca’s Lab where she improved her knowledge on the design and characterization of biodegradable drug delivery systems. After a position as Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Milano, in 2018 she became assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology at the same institution. She possesses specific expertise in parenteral drug delivery systems and development of not-compendial assay to characterize controlled release delivery systems. She is authored more than 70 publications in international peer-review journals and two book chapters.

Title: Dr. Bánóczi studied Chemistry at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary and graduated in 2003. In the same year he started his PhD studies in the Research Group of Peptide Chemsitry, at ELTE, HAS, Budapest supervised by Prof. Hudecz. He received his PhD degree in 2007. Now he is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, ELTE.  He has published 22 research articles in SCI(E) journals.

Title: Dr Abhishek Gupta has been working at the University of Wolverhampton (UoW) since 2008. He joined the teaching and research team at the School of Pharmacy before taking a role as a Lecturer in Anatomy and Physiology in the Institute of Health, Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing in 2021. Dr Gupta completed his PhD on the Production and characterization of biosynthetic hydrogel wound dressings from the UoW. He has presented his research findings in several national and international conferences and published his research findings in high impact factor journals. Moreover, Abhishek has authored a book on Poroscopy in personal identification.

Title: Snake venom as a source for key drugs to treat cancer and central nervous system diseases.

Title: In vitro anticancer screening of crude plant polar extracts

Title: Monika Stanciauskaite is a second year phD student studing in Pharmacy field at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences in Lithuania. She joined the research group of Prof. Kristina Ramanauskiene at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Pharmacy faculty. She received her master degree at medicinal chemistry in 2019 in united study program at Kaunas University of Technology and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. Her area of interest is isolation of biologically active compounds from plant raw materials and their application in ocular drops delivery system.

Title: Dr. Florin Borcan studied Chemistry at the West University Timisoara, Romania and graduated as MS in 2004. He then joined the research group of Prof. Remus Nutiu at the Faculty of Chemistry, Biology and Geography of West University Timisoara, Romania (UVT-CBG). He received his PhD degree in 2009 at the same institution. After two years postdoctoral fellowship supervised by Prof Andrei Anghel at the Department of Biochemistry Timisoara, Romania, he obtained the position of an Associate Professor at “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania. He has published more than 80 research articles in ISI journals.

Title: Experimental design of ciprofloxacin HCl-loaded nanoparticle formulation for an enhanced antimicrobial activity

Title: Katarina Kores studied Chemistry at the Faculty for Chemistry and Chemical Technology and graduated as M.S. in 2018. She then joined the research group of Prof. Dr. Urban Bren at the same institution, where she started as a research assistant. In 2019, she began with her Ph.D. Currently, she works as a research and pedagogical assistant. She has been focusing on the usage of the molecular docking approach to study the potential effects and use of drugs

Title: Nada Ghazy, lecturer of clinical biochemistry at Mansoura University, Egypt for 3 years. She worked as a post-doctoral fellowship visitor at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, the UK for 6 months starting from Jan 2019.  She got my B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D of pharmaceutical sciences from Mansoura University, 2012, 2015 and 2018 respectively. She has a good experience in animal models and cell culture in addition to a good experience in several techniques like ELISA technique, colorimetric assay, RNA extraction, PCR work, gel electrophoresis, real-time PCR work, protein array, PCR array, and immunohistochemistry. She published 10 manuscripts in addition to 3 conference abstracts.

Title: Sawsan Zaitone

Title: Dr Abdur Rashid is an Assistant Professor in the department of pharmaceutics, college of pharmacy at King Khalid University,Abha, KSA. He has completed his PhD in 2011 from the University of Queensland, School of Chemical Engineering, Brisabne, Australia. Dr Abdur Rashid has published 18 peer-reviewed research articles and conference papers so far. He has had 7 poster presentations in national and international conferences. Dr Abdur Rashid enjoys crystallizing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) with a desired size, developing new formulations and making new dosage forms. He became more interested in this area because of his PhD crystallization research project, which represents a fundamental link between chemical engineering, pharmaceutics and the pharmaceutical industry. This will be helpful to open a window for multi-disciplinary researchers and to undertake state-of-the-art research for the development and formulation of different cost effective and therapeutically effective dosage forms.

Title: Dr. Armorel van Eyk obtained her BSc degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa (1984). She completed a BSc(Honours) (1986) and MSc (1987) and graduated with a PhD in Biochemistry in 1992 at the same University. Post doctoral studies were completed at UCT and Stellenbosch University, Cape Town. She obtained a BCom in Marketing Management and Economics at UNISA (2002) and a BSc(Honours) in Pharmacology at Stellenbosch University (2004). She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in the Pharmacology Division. She has published 54 articles in SCI(E) journals.

Title: Mansureh Ghavam graduated from Isfahan University of Technology in Iran in 2004 with a degree in Natural Resources Engineering. She completed a PhD  in field of medicinal plants at  University of Tehran in 2013. Her doctoral dissertation was in the field of genetics, cytogenetics and phytochemistry of medicinal plants, which was accepted with honors. She has been officially employed by University of Kashan since 2013 and is researching the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of medicinal plants,  nanotechnology of medicinal plants,  and cultivation and propagation of medicinal  plants. Her first research was accepted entitled "Effects of ecological factors on the antioxidant potential and total phenol content of Scrophularia striata Boiss." in  Scientific Reports  in November 2019. Due to his research skills, he now has a partnership agreement with the University of Cagliari.

Title: Dr.Bhupendra works as Professor in Department of Pharmaceutics, Shree S.K.Patel College of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ganpat University, North Gujarat, India. He did his Ph.D. from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan. He did his PG and UG from M.S.University, Baroda. He has 19 years of experience in academic/industry (17+2). He awarded with Carrier Award for Young Teacher by AICTE, New Delhi in 2013. He also awarded for Distinguished Associate Professor by in TechNExt India 2017 by CSI, Mumbai. He claims on his name more than fifty national and international publication. He fetched grant for Research Projects, Staff Development Programs, Seminars, Conferences and Travel Grants from National and State Government agencies. He is also given his guidance in few industrial consultancy projects conducted at institute. Currently he is working in the field of lipid-based drug delivery and nanotech formulations. He guided 7 Ph.D. and 45 PG research scholars supervised. 5 Ph.D and 3 PG research scholars are currently working under his guidance in the field of Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery and Bioavailability Enhancement.