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Akhter S

Biography

Sohail Akhter is currently working as Research Associate at the Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His work has focused on the pharmaceutical development, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic evaluation of antipsychotics polymeric particles for overcoming non-adherence in psychotic disorders. He did his Master’s and Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmaceutics) on the development of lipid vesicular and polymeric nanoparticulate system for therapeutic targeting and bioavailability enhancement. During his Ph.D., he was awarded SRF fellowship of CSIR, DBT and UGC. In addition, he was awarded with travel grants for scientific presentations under young scientist category by DST and ICMR. He is credited with 2 Indian patents. Moreover, he has published 2 book chapters and more than 30 research and review papers in peered reviewed journals of high impacts. He is member of review and the editorial (advisory) board of a variety of scientific journals. He was awarded with 6th CLINAM 2013- Fellowship (from European Foundation for Clinical Nanomedicine).

Research Interest

Rational development of nanoparticulates and vesicular systems for effective therapeutic targeting, cancer nanotechnology, ocular drug delivery, pharmacokinetics and bioanalysis etc