Advanced Drug Delivery Systems for Colonic Disorders

Prof Raimar Löbenberg holds a BS in Pharmacy from the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Germany. He received his PhD in Pharmaceutics from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt in 1996 for his work on drug delivery using nanoparticles. He joined the University of Alberta in 2000, where he is now a Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences. His research interests are inhalable nanoparticles to treat lung diseases such as lung cancer and tuberculosis. His lab regularly develops and characterises nanoparticles for various inflammatory diseases and cancer. His lab also hosts a unique pencentury device which assists in effectively delivering nanoparticles to the lungs of rodents. He holds a US patent for the delivery of nanoparticles to the lungs. Another major interest area is Biopharmaceutics, and predicting the oral performance of drugs and botanicals.

Prof Löbenberg is a founder and Director of the Drug Development and Innovation Centre at the University of Alberta. The Centre specialises in clinical trial material production, and holds a Health Canada site licence and a drug establishment licence. The Centre has controlled substance licences to synthesise psychedelics in a dedicated chemistry lab. The quality control lab has state-of-the-art analytical instruments and other pharmaceutically relevant performance test instruments. Prof Löbenberg is a former president of the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (2014-2015). He is a member and Vice Chair of the United States Pharmacopeia Dietary Supplement Expert Committee, a Vice Chair of the Specialty Committee of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Pharmaceutics of the World Foundation of Chinese Medicine Science, and a member of the Health Canada Scientific Advisory Committee on Pharmaceutical Sciences and Clinical Pharmacology, and of the Health Canada Scientific Advisory Committee on Opiate Abuse.

Dr. Sachin Kumar Singh, is working as professor and head of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, India and visiting professor Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has many years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Singh has published more than 350 research papers with cumulative impact of 1300, authored several books, and dozens of book chapters. He is also featured under top 2% scientists of world as per the list of 2021, published by Stanford University, USA.

Dr. Kamal Dua is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Pharmacy at the Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. He has research experience of over many years in the field of drug delivery systems targeting inflammatory diseases. Dr. Dua researches in two complementary areas; drug delivery and immunology, specifically addressing how these disciplines can advance one another, helping the community to live longer and healthier. This is evidenced by his extensive publication record in reputed journals. Dr. Dua’s research interests focus on harnessing the pharmaceutical potential of modulating critical regulators such as Interleukins and microRNAs and developing new and effective drug delivery formulations for the management of chronic airway diseases. He has published more than 80 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and authored or co-authored four books. He is an active member of many national and international professional societies.