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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Aisha Akhtar |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice |
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Vicky Everett |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice MPharm Placement Lead MPharm Careers Lead |
Pharmacy practice, placements |
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Kate Fletcher | Associate Professor of Pharmacy Education & Practice | Pharmacy education | |
Daniel Grant |
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacy Education Teaching and Learning Dean |
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Hanan Hamad |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice |
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Dr Amelia Hollywood |
Associate Professor in Health Services Research |
Health psychology, behaviour change, obesity, patient-centred care and pain. Behaviour change interventions, exploring patients lived experience and process evaluation |
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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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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 | |
MaryAnn Ling | Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice | Clinical hospital pharmacy practice | |
Dr Atta Naqvi | Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice | ||
Dr Nilesh Patel |
Associate Professor in Pharmacy Director of Pharmacy Practice |
Clinical pharmaceutics, health services research | |
Rav Savania |
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Education School Director of Teaching and Learning |
Pharmacy education, standard setting policy and procedures, pharmacy practice, student welfare and resilience | |
Herpreet Sharma |
Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy |
The impact of menopause on the brain, the impact of ethnicity on menopause symptoms, menopause and alternative therapies, health inequalities |
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Sue Slade |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice |
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Rachael Stannard |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice |
Clinical hospital, mental health |
Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Name | Position and responsibilities | Research interests | |
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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 and Pharmaceutical Sciences | Pharmacy education, technology enhanced learning, topical and transdermal drug delivery |
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Dr John Brazier |
Associate Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry Pharmacy Director of Teaching and Learning |
DNA structure and function, Nucleic Acid targeting |
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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 and Pharmaceutics Director of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry 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 School Director of Recruitment and Admissions |
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 and Royal Society Industry Fellow Chair of Chemistry and Pharmacy building Joint Technicians and Academics Group (JTAG) Director of Physicochemical, Ex Vivo and Invertebrate Tests and Analysis Centre (PEVITAC) Manager for laboratories 169, LG3 and LG59 in Chemistry and Pharmacy building |
Transmucosal drug delivery (ocular, nasal, oral, intravesical and vaginal), mucoadhesive materials, mucosa-penetration, hydrogels, nanoparticles, pharmaceutical polymers, stimuli-responsive polymers, encapsulation technologies |
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Dr Roman Moiseev |
Lecturer in Pharmaceutics Business Development Officer at PEVITAC |
Ocular and nasal drug delivery, ophthalmic research, in vitro ocular models, clinical ophthalmology, toxicology, liposomal formulations, polyaphrons, invertebrate models, educational mobile applications and software |
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Dr Sarah Needs |
Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Science |
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, Urinary Tract Infections, novel antimicrobials, miniaturised microbiology, evaluation of Healthcare Technologies, commercialisation of research |
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Tendai Nelson |
Graduate Teaching Assistant in Pharmaceutical Science |
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Professor Helen Osborn |
Professor of Biomedicinal Chemistry Deputy Head of School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy 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 Exams Officer for CIPPET, Physician Associate programmes and MSc by Research |
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 Programme Director of MSc (by Research) |
G protein-coupled receptors, ion channels, signalling, neuronal, glial, endothelial and stem cells, Serine Proteases and neuropeptides, pain, cells damage, neurodegeneration and inflammation, Technology-enhanced and E-learning |
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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 |
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 Alex Bye |
Lecturer in Pharmacology Pharmacology Placement Lead |
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Dr Graeme Cottrell |
Associate Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 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 |
Neurodegeneration, glial biology, gasotransmitters, ion channels/transporters |
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Dr Suha Dadou |
Lecturer in Pharmacology and Therapeutics |
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Dr Lizzy Lander |
Associate Professor in Pharmacology and Health Sciences Admissions Tutor for BSc Pharmacology and MPAS Physician Associate Studies |
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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Professor Gary Stephens |
Professor of Pharmacology Programme Director for BSc 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 Pharmacy Wellbeing, Inclusion, Diversity and Equality Lead |
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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Professor Darius Widera |
Professor of 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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Sarah Garnish |
Lecturer in Clinical Practice |
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Dr 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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Lecturer in Clinical Practice |
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Dr Caroline Parkhurst |
Lecturer in Clinical Practice |
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Professor Jane Portlock |
Professor of Pharmacy Postgraduate Education Interim Director of CIPPET |
Educational development, patient safety, public health, leadership | |
Nicola Wilson |
Lecturer in Clinical Practice |
Acute medicine, frailty, deprescribing, antimicrobial stewardship |
Physician Associate Programmes
Name | Position and responsibilities | ||
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Donna Baker-Lacey |
Lecturer Physician Associate Programme |
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Samantha Dredge |
Lecturer Physician Associate Programme |
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Dr Sarah Greenwood | Associate Professor in Physician Associate Studies | ||
Dr Simone Magee |
Associate Professor in Physician Associate Studies Academic Director Physician Associate Programme |
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Dr Richard Perry | Lecturer Physician Associate Programme | ||
Lecturer Physician Associate Programme |
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Sam Warrior | Lecturer Physician Associate Programme |
Administrative staff
Name | Position | |
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Khush Panwar |
Clinical Placement Liaison Officer |
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Michael Smith |
Clinical Suite Facility Manager |
Research staff
Name | Email address | ||
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Dr Mahmoud Abuelella |
m.h.e.abuelella@reading.ac.uk |
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Dr Kathryn Cox |
k.w.cox@reading.ac.uk |
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Dr Jose De Almeida | j.r.dealmeida@reading.ac.uk |
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Julie Hart | julie.hart@reading.ac.uk |
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Maria Roznovcova |
maria.roznovcova@reading.ac.uk |
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Dr Richa Sharma | richa.sharma@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 | |||
Professor Alan Palmer | |||
Dr Clare Rawlinson Malone |
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Professor Kath Ryan |
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Dr Arif Shivji |
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Professor Phillip Strange |
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Professor Ben Whalley |
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Professor Elizabeth Williamson |