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 Quality Assurance at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, India. He is an honorary professor at Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney, Australia and School of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University, 47500 Sunway City, Malaysia. He has 14 years of teaching and research experience. Dr. Singh has completed one DST-SERB funded project on development of SNEDDS of Polypeptide-k for treatment of diabetes mellitus. He has published 500 plus research papers with cumulative impact of 1500 plus, authored 5 books and 25 book chapters. He has 10 granted patents to his credit. He is expert in development of novel drug delivery systems, synbiotics based formulations, analytical and bioanalytical method development and BA-BE studies. He has graduated 17 PhD students and 35 M Pharmacy students and currently graduating 3 masters and 6 PhD students. He is also featured under top 2% scientists of world as per the list of 2021, 2022 and 2023, published by Stanford University, USA. Currently his “h” index is 48 with 11000 plus citations. He is a recipient various national awards including Dr. B.C. Deb memorial award for popularization of science-2020 (honoured by Indian Science Congress Association), Bharat Shiksha Ratan Award-2014 (by Global Society for Health and Educational Growth, Delhi, India) and Bharat Gaurav Puraskar-2022 (by KTK outstanding achievers and education foundation, New Delhi) and Distinguished Alumnus Award (by Sree Siddaganga College of Pharmacy, Tumakuru, Karnataka).

Kamal Dua is an Associate Professor in the Discipline of Pharmacy at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Dr Dua has been recognised and named as one of Australia’s Top 250 researchers in 2025 and 2024 in Research Magazine by “The Australian” in the research discipline of Health and Medical sciences, and #1/research leader in the area of Pharmacology and Pharmacy (2025) and Toxicology (2024) respectively. With over 17 years of research experience, he has specialised in drug delivery targeting inflammatory diseases. Additionally, Dr Dua also leads drug delivery research at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. In this role, he focuses on advancing targets identified in research projects to develop innovative formulations, taking the first steps toward clinical translation. Dr Dua’s research encompasses two complementary areas: drug delivery and immunology. His work explores how these disciplines can mutually benefit, contributing to the goal of promoting longer and healthier lives for the community. His commitment to synergy is reflected in his extensive publication record in reputable journals. Dr Dua’s research interests are centered on harnessing the pharmaceutical potential of modulating critical regulators, such as interleukins and microRNAs. He also specialises in developing new and effective drug delivery formulations for managing inflammation in chronic airway diseases and cancer.