Head of Department
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
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| Professor Katrina Bicknell |
Professor in Cardiovascular and Regenerative Medicine; Head of Department Pharmacy | +44 (0) 118 378 7032 | k.bicknell@reading.ac.uk |
Executive Support Staff
| Name | Position | Telephone | |
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| Wenhai (Jason) Ge | Executive Administration Officer - Pharmacy
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+44 (0) 118 378 4343 | wenhai.ge@reading.ac.uk |
Academic staff
Pharmacy Practice
| Name | Position and responsibilities | Research interests | |
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| Zeenat Beg |
Graduate Teaching Assistant | Exploring undergraduate pharmacy students' academic resilience |
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| Professor Parastou Donyai |
Professor of Social and Cognitive Pharmacy |
Social psychology of pharmacy, adherence, prescribing, medication beliefs | |
| Ritienne Fenech | Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice | ||
| Kate Fletcher | Associate Professor of Pharmacy Education & Practice | Pharmacy education | |
| Daniel Grant |
Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacy Education Teaching and Learning Dean |
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| Adil Hasham
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Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice | Clinical pharmacy | |
| Dr Amelia Hollywood |
Associate Professor in Health Services Research |
Health psychology, behaviour change and obesity |
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| Lee Karim |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice |
Mental health | |
| Pooja Kashyap |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice |
Pharmacy practice including law and ethics, services and community pharmacy |
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| Victoria Kleanthous | Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice | ||
| Catherine Langran |
Associate Professor in Pharmacy Education School Director of Teaching and Learning |
Pharmacy education, clinical pharmacy, resilience, wellbeing and burnout |
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| Dr Rosemary Lim | Associate Professor in Medication Use and Safety | Human factors, organisational resilience, medication safety, diabetes (insulin), dementia, antimicrobial resistance, non-medical prescribing, qualitative research, patient and public involvement | |
| Mary-Ann Ling | Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice | Pharmacy Practice | |
| Dr Atta Naqvi | Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice | ||
| Puja Nathwani |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice |
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| Dr Nilesh Patel |
Associate Professor in Pharmacy Programme Director for MPharm Pharmacy |
Clinical pharmaceutics, pharmacists in general practice and evaluation of pharmacy services | |
| Gurinder Singh Purewal |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice |
Pharmacy practice, providing clinical pharmacy services to patients in care homes, medicines management in care homes and a special interest in dementia and elderly care |
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Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice | Frailty, renal, Interprofessional education | |
| Ravi Savania |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice Department Director of Teaching and Learning |
Pharmacy practice | |
| Sue Slade |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice |
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| Sanna Zaffar |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice |
Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
| Name | Position and responsibilities | Research interests | |
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| Dr Sarah Allman | Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biochemistry | Chemical biology, carbohydrates, glycan analysis, glycan processing enzymes, cell signalling, autophagy, glycoprotein degradation |
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| Dr Hisham Al-Obaidi |
Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Engineering amorphous and crystalline materials for drug delivery purposes, the use of co-crystals and amorphous dispersions in Pulmonary and oral drug delivery, encapsulation of bioactives into more complex carriers |
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| Dr Sam Bizley | Lecturer in Pharmacy | ||
| Dr John Brazier |
Associate Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry Director of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
DNA structure and function, Nucleic Acid targeting |
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| Ryan Coones | Graduate Teaching Assistant in Pharmaceutical Science | The effects of polyphenols on lipid bilayers |
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| Dr Alexander Edwards |
Associate Professor in Biomedical Technology Impact Lead for Pharmacy Research Division |
Diagnostics, microfluidics, miniaturisation, digital technology for healthcare, vaccines, vaccine formulation, formulation of biologics, innovation, entrepreneurship, technology commercialisation |
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| Professor Francesca Greco |
Professor of Pharmaceutics Pharmacy Exams Officer |
Drug delivery, nanomedicines, polymer-drug conjugates, cancer |
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| Professor Rebecca Green |
Professor of Biophysical Chemistry Admissions Tutor and Programme Director for MPAS Physician Associate Studies |
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| Dr James Hall |
Associate Professor of Biomolecular Structure and Educational Technology Admissions Tutor for MPharm Pharmacy |
Nucleic acid structure, damage and drug interactions, X-ray crystallography and solution-phase characterisation |
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| Dr Elena Kabova | Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry | ||
| Professor Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy |
Professor of Formulation Science Pharmacy Director of Postgraduate Recruitment; Programme Director of MSc (by Research) in Formulation Design and Analysis |
Transmucosal drug delivery (ocular, nasal, oral and intravesical), mucoadhesive materials, mucosa-penetration, hydrogels, nanoparticles, pharmaceutical polymers, stimuli-responsive polymers, encapsulation technologies |
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| Professor Helen Osborn |
Professor of Biomedicinal Chemistry Deputy Head of School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy School Athena SWAN lead Department Director of Academic Tutoring |
Medicinal chemistry, synthetic chemistry, analytical chemistry, prodrugs, cancer, bacterial infections, carbohydrates |
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| Professor Kenneth Shankland | Professor of Pharmaceutical Crystallography |
Crystallography of molecular materials, powder X-ray diffraction, single-crystal X-ray diffraction |
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| Professor Katja Strohfeldt -Venables |
Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Education Dean (Teaching and Learning) |
Synthesis and evaluation of metal-based anticancer agents, quality assurance of herbal medicine |
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| Professor Adrian Williams |
Professor of Pharmaceutics Dean of Postgraduate Research Studies and Researcher Development |
Medicines design, topical and transdermal drug delivery, poorly-water soluble drugs |
Pharmacology
| Name | Position and responsibilities | Research interests | |
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| Dr Silvia Amadesi |
Associate Professor in Pharmacology |
Serine proteases, neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration |
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| Professor Katrina Bicknell |
Professor in Cardiovascular and Regenerative Medicine Head of Department |
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| Dr Angela Bithell |
Associate Professor in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Director of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Pharmacy Wellbeing, Inclusion, Diversity and Equality Lead |
Stem cell biology, neuroscience, developmental neurobiology, neurodegeneration, epigenetics, functional 3D in vitro neuronal networks, glia in health and disease |
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| Dr Leanne Black | Lecturer in Pharmacology |
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| Dr Graeme Cottrell |
Associate Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Director of Postgraduate Progression School Director of Postgraduate Research Studies |
G protein-coupled receptors, ion channels, receptors, trafficking, signalling, migraine, inflammation |
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| Dr Mark Dallas |
Associate Professor in Cellular Neuroscience Pharmacy Outreach/Marketing Lead School Director of Outreach |
Neurodegeneration, glial biology, gasotransmitters, ion channels/transporters |
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| Dr Lizzy Lander |
Associate Professor in Pharmacology and Health Sciences Admissions Tutor for BSc Pharmacology |
Diversity & inclusion in teaching, cellular receptors (GPCRs) and their roles in health and disease | |
| Dr Maria Maiaru | Lecturer in Pharmacology | Pain mechanisms, pharmacology of chronic pain, autophagy, neurodegeneration |
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| Dr Alister McNeish |
Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Pharmacology |
Pharmacology of ion channels in vascular function, molecular mechanism of omega 3 fatty acids in vascular function, effects of cannabinoids in epilepsy/seizure, neurovascular interactions in epilepsy/seizure. Methods include: electrophysiology, myography, molecular biology, and behavioural |
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| Professor Gary Stephens |
Professor of Pharmacology |
Presynaptic calcium channels, G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), plant-derived cannabinoids, inhibitory neurotransmission in the cerebellum |
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| Dr Francesco Tamagnini | Lecturer in Pharmacology | Neuropharmacology, neurophysiology, neurodegeneration, hippocampal learning and memory, perirhinal cortex function, visual recognition memory, functional maturation of stem cell-derived neurons, neuronal excitability |
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| Professor Sakthivel Vaiyapuri | Professor in Cardiovascular & Venom Pharmacology | Cardiovascular, platelets, thrombosis, inflammation, venom toxicology |
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| Dr Darius Widera |
Associate Professor in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Pharmacy Research Division Lead |
Stem cells, inflammation, extracellular vesicles, regeneration, signal transduction |
CIPPET
| Name | Position and responsibilities | Research interests | |
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| Jan Glaze | Lecturer in Clinical Practice | ||
| Caroline Gowlett | Lecturer in Clinical Practice | Point of care testing, primary care, elderly care, sepsis management |
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| Nicola Green | Lecturer in Clinical Practice | Acute medicine, frailty, deprescribing, antimicrobial stewardship |
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| Kat Hall |
Associate Professor of Clinical Education Director of Centre for Inter-Professional Postgraduate Education and Training (CIPPET) |
Clinical education, postgraduate taught education, independent prescribing, workplace-based education and training, interprofessional education, neonatal care, medicines in pregnancy and breastfeeding |
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| Amareen Kamboh |
Lecturer in Clinical Practice
Programme Director for - Postgraduate Diploma in Foundation Pharmacy Practice |
Pharmacy practice, postgraduate, education |
Physician Associate Programmes
| Name | Position and responsibilities | ||
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| Dr Sarah Greenwood | Associate Professor in Physician Associate Studies | ||
| Dr Ishac Jalisi |
Lecturer Physician Associate Programme | ||
| Dr Simone Magee | Academic Director Physician Associate Programme | ||
| Dr Richard Perry | Lecturer Physician Associate Programme | ||
| Sam Warrior | Lecturer Physician Associate Programme | ||
| Alice Wills |
Physician Associate Teaching Fellow, MPAS Physician Associate Studies |
Research staff
| Name | Email address | ||
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| Ahmad Abdullrahman |
a.abdullrahman@reading.ac.uk |
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| Cristiana-Ioanna Bercea | c.bercea@reading.ac.uk |
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| Julie Hart | julie.hart@reading.ac.uk |
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| Sarah Needs |
s.h.needs@reading.ac.uk | ||
| Dr Elanchezhian Rajan |
e.rajan@reading.ac.uk |
Emeritus and visiting staff
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| Professor Angela Alexander |
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| Professor Vincenza Andrisano | |||
| Professor Gavin Brooks | |||
| Dr Marc Brown | |||
| Dr Clare Crowley |
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| Dr Patrick Lewis | |||
| Professor Luigi Martini | |||
| Dr Rosa Montero | |||
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| Dr Clare Rawlinson Malone |
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Professor Phillip Strange |
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| Professor Elizabeth Williamson |