Staff in the Reading School of Pharmacy

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Head of Department

Name	Position	Telephone	Email
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	Email
Wenhai (Jason) Ge	Executive Administration Officer - Pharmacy	+44 (0) 118 378 4343	wenhai.ge@reading.ac.uk

Academic staff

Pharmacy Practice

Name	Position and responsibilities	Research interests
Kate Fletcher	Associate Professor of Pharmacy Education & Practice	Pharmacy education
Daniel Grant	Professor of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacy Education Teaching and Learning Dean
Hanan Hamad	Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice
Dr Amelia Hollywood	Associate Professor in Health Services Research	Health psychology, behaviour change and obesity
Lee Karim	Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice	Mental health
Pooja Kashyap	Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice	Pharmacy practice including law and ethics, services and community pharmacy
Vicky Kleanthous	Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice MPharm Placement Lead MPharm Careers Lead	Pharmacy practice, placements
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
Puja Nathwani	Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice
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 Careers and Alumni Lead	Pharmacy education, health inequalities, clinical audits
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
Sue Slade	Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice
Imogen Steed	Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice

Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Name	Position and responsibilities	Research interests
Dr Hisham Al-Obaidi	Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences	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
Dr Sam Bizley	Lecturer in Pharmacy
Dr John Brazier	Associate Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry Director of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry Pharmacy Director of Teaching and Learning	DNA structure and function, Nucleic Acid targeting
Professor Francesca Greco	Professor of Pharmaceutics Pharmacy Exams Officer	Drug delivery, nanomedicines, polymer-drug conjugates, cancer
Professor Rebecca Green	Professor of Biophysical Chemistry Admissions Tutor and Programme Director for MPAS Physician Associate Studies
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
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 and LG3 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
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
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
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
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
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
Dr Silvia Amadesi	Associate Professor in Pharmacology Programme Director of MSc (by Research)	G protein-coupled receptors, ion channels, cell lines and primary sensory neurons cultures, cells toxicity and proliferation assay, neurodegeneration and pain
Professor Katrina Bicknell	Professor in Cardiovascular and Regenerative Medicine Head of Department
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
Dr Leanne Black	Lecturer in Pharmacology
Dr Alex Bye	Lecturer in Pharmacology Pharmacology Placement Lead
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
Dr Mark Dallas	Associate Professor in Cellular Neuroscience Pharmacy Outreach/Marketing Lead	Neurodegeneration, glial biology, gasotransmitters, ion channels/transporters
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
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
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
Professor Sakthivel Vaiyapuri	Professor in Cardiovascular & Venom Pharmacology	Cardiovascular, platelets, thrombosis, inflammation, venom toxicology
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
Sarah Garnish	Lecturer in Clinical Practice
Dr Jan Glaze	Lecturer in Clinical Practice
Caroline Gowlett	Lecturer in Clinical Practice	Point of care testing, primary care, elderly care, sepsis management
Nicola Green	Lecturer in Clinical Practice	Acute medicine, frailty, deprescribing, antimicrobial stewardship
Jill Merewood	Lecturer in Clinical Practice
Dr Caroline Parkhurst	Lecturer in Clinical Practice
Professor Jane Portlock	Professor of Pharmacy Postgraduate Education Interim Director of CIPPET	Educational development, patient safety, public health, leadership

Physician Associate Programmes

Name	Position and responsibilities
Samantha Dredge	Lecturer Physician Associate Programme
Dr Sarah Greenwood	Associate Professor in Physician Associate Studies
Dr Simone Magee	Associate Professor in Physician Associate Studies Academic Director Physician Associate Programme
Dr Richard Perry	Lecturer Physician Associate Programme
Yousuf Qureshi	Lecturer Physician Associate Programme
Sam Warrior	Lecturer Physician Associate Programme

Administrative staff

Name	Position
Khush Panwar	Clinical Placement Liaison Officer
Michael Smith	Clinical Suite Facility Manager

Research staff

Name	Email address
Ahmad Abdullrahman	a.abdullrahman@reading.ac.uk
Dr Kathryn Cox	k.w.cox@reading.ac.uk
Julie Hart	julie.hart@reading.ac.uk
Sarah Needs	s.h.needs@reading.ac.uk
Dr Richa Sharma	richa.sharma@reading.ac.uk

Emeritus and visiting staff

Name	These cells are placeholder
Professor Angela Alexander
Professor Vincenza Andrisano
Professor Gavin Brooks
Dr Marc Brown
Dr Clare Crowley
Dr Patrick Lewis
Professor Luigi Martini
Dr Rosa Montero
Professor Alan Palmer
Dr Clare Rawlinson Malone
Professor Kath Ryan
Dr Arif Shivji
Professor Phillip Strange
Professor Ben Whalley
Professor Elizabeth Williamson