Meet the Team
Head of Department
Executive Support Staff
Academic Staff
Pharmacy Practice
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Name |
Position and Responsibilities |
Research interests |
| Zeenat Beg | Graduate Teaching Assistant | Exploring undergraduate pharmacy students' academic resilience |
| Ruth Botting | Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist | |
| Amandeep Dhaliwal | Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist | |
| Dr Ranjita Dhital | Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice |
Public health, alcohol brief interventions, psychosocial health intervention development, implementation and evaluation, health architecture, visual research methods, Participatory Action Research, Experience-based Co-Design, qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods research |
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Professor of Social and Cognitive Pharmacy Director of Pharmacy Practice |
Social psychology of pharmacy, adherence, prescribing, medication beliefs | |
| Ritienne Fenech | Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist | |
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Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacy Education School Director of Teaching and Learning |
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Lecturer in Health Services Research |
Health psychology, behaviour change and obesity | |
| Victoria Kleanthous | Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist | |
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Associate Professor in Pharmacy Education Director of Experiential Learning Lead for Teacher Practitioners |
Pharmacy education, clinical pharmacy | |
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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 | |
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Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist |
Pharmacy practice | |
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Associate Professor in Pharmacy MPharm Programme Director |
Clinical pharmaceutics, pharmacists in general practice and evaluation of pharmacy services | |
| Gurinder Singh Purewal | Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist |
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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Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist |
Mental health | |
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Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist |
Elderly care, frailty, polypharmacy | |
| Ramin Saleh | Graduate Teaching Assistant | Experiences of pain and pain management in elite athletes and the general population with chronic pain |
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Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice Departmental Director of Teaching and Learning |
Pharmacy practice | |
| Sabbah Sawsen | Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist |
Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
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Name |
Position and Responsibilities |
Research interests |
| Dr Sarah Allman | Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
Chemical biology, carbohydrates, glycan analysis, glycan processing enzymes, cell signalling, autophagy, glycoprotein degradation |
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Lecturer in Pharmaceutics |
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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Lecturer in Pharmacy |
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Associate Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry Director of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
DNA structure and function, Nucleic Acid targeting | |
| Ryan Coones | Graduate Teaching Assistant in Pharmaceutical Science | The effects of polyphenols on lipid bilayers |
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Associate Professor in Biomedical Technology Impact Lead |
Diagnostics, microfluidics, miniaturisation, digital technology for healthcare, vaccines, vaccine formulation, formulation of biologics, innovation, entrepreneurship, technology commercialisation | |
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Associate Professor in Drug Delivery Pharmacy Research Division Lead |
Drug delivery, nanomedicines, polymer-drug conjugates, cancer | |
| Professor Rebecca Green |
Professor of Biophysical Chemistry Deputy Head of School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy Admissions Tutor (MPAS Physician Associate Studies) |
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Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
Nucleic acid structure, damage and drug interactions | |
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Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry |
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Professor of Formulation Science Pharmacy Director of Postgraduate Recruitment; Program 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 of Biomedicinal Chemistry School Athena SWAN lead |
Medicinal chemistry, synthetic chemistry, analytical chemistry, prodrugs, cancer, bacterial infections, carbohydrates | |
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Crystallography |
Crystallography of molecular materials, powder X-ray diffraction, single-crystal X-ray diffraction | |
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Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Education Dean (Teaching and Learning) |
Synthesis and evaluation of metal-based anti-cancer agents, quality assurance of herbal medicine | |
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Professor of Pharmaceutics Research Dean (Health) |
Medicines design, topical and transdermal drug delivery, poorly-water soluble drugs |
Pharmacology
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Name |
Position and Responsibilities |
Research interests |
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Associate Professor in Pharmacology School Director of Academic Tutoring |
Serine proteases, neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration | |
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Associate Professor in Cardiovascular and Regenerative Medicine Head of Department Admissions Tutor (MPharm Pharmacy) |
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Associate Professor in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Pharmacy Athena SWAN Lead Pharmacy Research Division Lead |
Stem cell biology, neuroscience, developmental neurobiology, neurodegeneration, epigenetics, functional 3D in vitro neuronal networks, glia in health and disease | |
| Dr Leanne Black | Lecturer in Pharmacology | |
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Associate Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Director of Postgraduate Progression |
G protein-coupled receptors, ion channels, receptors, trafficking, signalling, migraine, inflammation | |
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Associate Professor in Cellular Neuroscience Pharmacy Outreach/Marketing Lead School Director of Outreach |
Neurodegeneration, glial biology, gasotransmitters, ion channels/transporters | |
| Dr Maria Maiaru | Lecturer in Pharmacology | Pain mechanisms, pharmacology of chronic pain, autophagy, neurodegeneration |
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Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Pharmacology Pharmacy Exams Officer |
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 of Pharmacology Director of Pharmacology and Therapeutics Admissions Tutor (BSc Pharmacology) |
Presynaptic calcium channels, G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), plant derived cannabinoids, inhibitory neurotransmission in the cerebellum | |
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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 | |
| Associate Professor in Cardiovascular & Venom Pharmacology | Cardiovascular, platelets, thrombosis, inflammation, venom toxicology | |
| Associate Professor in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Study Abroad and ERASMUS Coordinator |
Stem cells, inflammation, extracellular vesicles, regeneration, signal transduction |
CIPPET
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Name |
Position and Responsibilities |
Research interests |
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Senior Teaching Fellow (CIPPET) |
Primary care, clinical pharmacists, diabetes | |
| Paul Flattery | Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist | Microbiology and infectious diseases, Acute/Emergency medicine |
| Kate Fletcher |
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Education & Practice Programme Director - MSc Clinical Pharmacy Practice |
Pharmacy education |
| Jan Glaze | Senior Teaching Fellow (CIPPET) | |
| Caroline Gowlett | Senior Teaching Fellow (CIPPET) | Point of care testing, primary care, elderly care, sepsis management |
| Nicola Green | Senior Teaching Fellow (CIPPET) | Acute medicine, frailty, deprescribing, antimicrobial stewardship |
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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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Senior Teaching Fellow (CIPPET) Programme Director - Postgraduate Diploma in Foundation Pharmacy Practice |
Pharmacy practice, postgraduate, education | |
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Senior Teaching Fellow (CIPPET) |
Primary care, clinical pharmacists, diabetes | |
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Senior Teaching Fellow (CIPPET) Pharmacist Lead for Independent Prescribing Programme |
Physician Associate Programme
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Name |
Position and Responsibilities |
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Lecturer Physician Associate Programme | |
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Academic Director Physician Associate Programme | |
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Lecturer Physician Associate Programme | |
| Sam Warrior |
Lecturer Physician Associate Programme |
Research Staff
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Name |
Email address |
| Cristiana-Ioanna Bercea | c.bercea@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Adam Gadd | adam.gadd@reading.ac.uk |
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Dr Jessica Gusthart |
j.s.gusthart@reading.ac.uk |
| Julie Hart | julie.hart@reading.ac.uk |
| Sarah Needs | s.h.needs@reading.ac.uk |
| Michele Wood | m.e.wood@reading.ac.uk |
Emeritus and Visiting Staff
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Name |
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Professor Angela Alexander |
| Professor Vincenza Andrisano |
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Dr Andrew Brewster |
| Professor Gavin Brooks |
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Dr Marc Brown |
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Dr Helena Cimarosti |
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Dr Clare Crowley |
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Dr Joanne Kitchen |
| Dr Patrick Lewis |
| Professor Luigi Martini |
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Dr Kate Masters |
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Dr Charles McKenna |
| Dr Rosa Montero |
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Professor Alan Palmer |
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Dr Mark Parry |
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Dr Clare Rawlinson Malone |
| Professor Kath Ryan |
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Dr Arif Shivji |
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Dr Nicola Stoner |
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Professor Phillip Strange |
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Professor Ben Whalley |
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Professor Elizabeth Williamson |
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Dr Stephen Wright |