Author: Farhan Jalees Ahmad

Dr. Sarwar Beg is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. Prior to joining Jamia Hamdard, Dr Beg was a Research Scientist at Jubilant Generics Limited, Noida, India. He has over a decade of research experience in the field of pharmaceutics, especially in the systematic development and characterization of diverse drug delivery systems employing Quality by Design paradigms like Design of Experiments and Multivariate Statistical Techniques. To date he has authored over 160 publications in various peer-reviewed journals, 45 book chapters and 12 books. Dr Beg has also participated in and presented his research work at several conferences in India, China, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, USA and Canada, and has several best paper awards and young scientist awards to his credit. Dr. Md Abul Barkat is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Hafr Al Batin, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He holds a Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India, and a Ph D in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmaceutics) from the Integral University Lucknow, India. With more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in the field of Pharmaceutical Science, his research interests include the development and optimization of herbal/synthetic based nanostructured delivery systems, controlled release drug delivery systems, bio-enhanced drug delivery systems, nanomaterials and nanocomposites for a variety of conditions like burns, cancer etc. To date he has authored more than 30 research and review publications in various peer-reviewed journals, 6 book chapters and 7 books. Dr. Farhan Jalees Ahmad is currently serving as a Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, and isa former Dean of Interdisciplinary Sciences at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. An internationally respected researcher in the area of Pharmaceutical Sciences with M.Pharma and Ph D (Medicine) degrees from Jamia Hamdard, he continues to teach and leads a very productive research group, which has been extensively supported by national and international funding agencies. Prof Ahmad has 28 years of experience in research and education, with focus areas including the development, scale-up, technology transfer and launching of pharmaceutical products, both for domestic and international markets. He has published more than 300 research and review papers, 12 book chapters and 9 books.