Ajay J Khopade Editor

Aliasgar Shahiwala is Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Dubai Pharmacy College for Girls, which is affiliated with Dubai Medical University. He is a renowned researcher with an impressive portfolio, having edited eight books, authored 19 chapters, and published over 60 articles. With more than 20 years of experience in academia and over three years in the industry, he has made significant contributions to the pharmacy field.

Ajay J. Khopade is Vice President of Research and Development and heads the non-oral specialty division at Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (SPIL). He has more than 26 years of corporate research experience in developing generic and differentiated products. He is an inventor of multiple commercialized platform drug-delivery technologies in ophthalmology and oncology, such as GRF, Lipixelle, TearAct, Trisurf, and Nanotectons, protected by 14 patents, and he has more than 100 research publications to his credit. He has been a P4 FIT Advisory Board member for the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant. He was a Humboldt post-doctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany. Dr. Khopade earned a PhD in pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Sagar, India.

Vandana B. Patravale is Professor of Pharmaceutics at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai, with 30 years of teaching and research experience. She has published over 300 publications, received 28 granted patents, and has transferred more than 20 technologies to the industry, including several nano drug delivery systems.