Zeeshan Ahmad
Professor
De Montfort University
United Kingdom
Biography
Zeeshan Ahmad has obtained his BSc and PhD (2007) from the University of London. He has worked as a Research Fellow on several drug delivery and biomaterials projects at Queen Mary and University College London before taking up a lectureship in Pharmaceutics in the University of Portsmouth, School of Pharmacy in 2010. He then moved to the Leicester School of Pharmacy in 2013, and recently was appointed as the Chair in Pharmaceutics (2016). He also leads a UK wide initiative (academic and industrial) on EHDA Technologies and is also a Royal Society Industry Fellow. He has published extensively and specializes in drug delivery, nanotechnology, pharmaceutical technologies and biomaterials. His research group comprises national and international PhD, MSc and undergraduate students where the focus is on developing advanced nano, micro and macro drug delivery systems through interdisciplinary design, concepts and technology.
Research Interest
Drug delivery, nanotechnology, pharmaceutical technologies and biomaterials.