Moji Christianah (Akinsanya) Adeyeye
CEO
The University of Georgia
Greater Chicago Area
Biography
Professor Adeyeye is the founding Chair of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Professor of Pharmaceutics and Drug Product Evaluation at the College of Pharmacy, Roosevelt University in Schaumburg, Illinois. She was Professor of Pharmaceutics and Manufacturing for 21 years at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. She is Senior Fulbright Scholar and Specialist and 2008 AAPS Fellow. She earned her B.S., and M.S., and PhD from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria and University of Georgia, Athens, GA, respectively. Her research interests include preformulation, early phase development of solid, semisolid and liquid dosage forms, and IND-based and intellectual property-driven late phase development or bench-to-bedside translational research. She has mentored over 15 PhD and M.S candidates. She has 5 patents, 55 peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and books, and more than 140 scientific presentations. She is the founder of a socially conscious start-up company – Elim Pediatric Pharmaceuticals. She uses her university lab for the early phase R&D and partners with contract manufacturing organizations for the clinical and registration batches. She a mission and non-profit organization founded Drugs AIDS and HIV Patients and Sarah’s Orphan Homes.
Research Interest
Pharmaceutical Research and Innovations
Lakshmi Prasanna Kolluru
Sr. Formulation Scientist
Mercer University
USA
Biography
Dr. Lakshmi Prasanna Kolluru is currently working as Sr. Formulation Scientist at Medefil, Inc, a generic pharmaceutical company in USA. She is responsible for leading product development project teams all the way from kick-off to product approval. Prior to joining Medefil, Dr. Kolluru served in formulation, analytical and clinical development groups across brand pharma, generic pharma and contract research organizations. She graduated with a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Mercer University, Atlanta, GA. Her thesis research focusing on development of novel targeted drug delivery system for tumor theragnosis has been recognized internationally by American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) for excellence in graduate research. In addition to her active research, Dr. Kolluru serves as an editorial board member and peer-reviewer for several international journals. She is also routinely invited to serve as a speaker and moderator for international conferences on pharmaceutical nanotechnology, formulation development and drug delivery.
Research Interest
Generic Product Development, Parenteral Formulation Development, Nanotechnology based Drug Delivery
Biography
Dr Aisyah Saad is a registered pharmacist and received her Ph.D.(Pharmaceutical Chemistry) from University of Nottingham, U. K. in 2005. She has been teaching medicinal chemistry to pharmacy undergraduates at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) for over a decade. Her science presentations are featured as slide examples in the best-selling Presentation Zen book series. An award-winning educator, her teaching effort was shortlisted in the Top 50 for Wharton-QS Stars Education Awards 2014 out of over 400 applicants worldwide. In addition to serving as USM Manager for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), Dr Aisyah Saad conducts regular workshops for educators on effective presentations, interactive lecture and MOOC in her role as university trainer and Mastertrainer at Malaysia Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT).
Research Interest
Her research interests are in extraction of fine chemicals from local plants and synthesis of glyco-modified therapeutic compounds against influenza. In 2011, she was a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Glycomics, Gold Coast Australia—working in the labs of Professor Mark von Itzstein. A former Editor-in-Chief of Malaysian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr Aisyah also serves as reviewers to several international medicinal and synthetic chemistry journals.
