Public Health and Nutrition

Zeeshan Ahmad is a Professor of Pharmaceutics & Drug Delivery at De Montfort University (The Leicester School of Pharmacy). He is a Royal Society Industry Fellow (working closely with BlueFrog Design) and leads the EPSRC EHDA Network (a highly interdisciplinary initiative involving several pharma industries (10) and academia (12)). He obtained his first and Doctoral degrees from Queen Mary-University of London (Chemistry Department and EPSRC IRC/Materials, respectively). His work is highly interdisciplinary working at the interface of Materials (Bio), Engineering, Pharmaceutics and Biomedical Devices. This is firmly rooted in his training with a good first degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, PhD in Biomedical Material (Polymer Design, Synthesis, Processing and Analysis) followed by PDRA and Fellowships (EPSRC and Leverhulme Trust) in various engineering related aspects and these have included atomization, flow focusing, microfluidics and fiber based methods.