Meet the Team
Head of Department
Executive Support Staff
Academic Staff
Pharmacy Practice
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 |
Professor of Social and Cognitive Pharmacy Director of Pharmacy Practice |
Social psychology of pharmacy, adherence, prescribing, medication beliefs | |
Ritienne Fenech | Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist | |
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 | |
Associate Professor in Pharmacy Education Director of Experiential Learning Lead for Teacher Practitioners |
Pharmacy education, clinical pharmacy | |
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 | |
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 |
Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist |
Mental health | |
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 |
Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice Departmental Director of Teaching and Learning |
Pharmacy practice | |
Sabbah Sawsen | Teacher Practitioner Pharmacist |
Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
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 |
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 | |
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 |
Associate Professor in Biomedical Technology Impact Lead |
Diagnostics, microfluidics, miniaturisation, digital technology for healthcare, vaccines, vaccine formulation, formulation of biologics, innovation, entrepreneurship, technology commercialisation | |
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 | |
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 | |
Professor of Biomedicinal Chemistry School Athena SWAN lead |
Medicinal chemistry, synthetic chemistry, analytical chemistry, prodrugs, cancer, bacterial infections, carbohydrates | |
Professor of Pharmaceutical Crystallography |
Crystallography of molecular materials, powder X-ray diffraction, single-crystal X-ray diffraction | |
Professor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Education Dean (Teaching and Learning) |
Synthesis and evaluation of metal-based anti-cancer agents, quality assurance of herbal medicine | |
Professor of Pharmaceutics Research Dean (Health) |
Medicines design, topical and transdermal drug delivery, poorly-water soluble drugs |
Pharmacology
Name |
Position and Responsibilities |
Research interests |
Associate Professor in Pharmacology School Director of Academic Tutoring |
Serine proteases, neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration | |
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 | |
Associate Professor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Director of Postgraduate Progression |
G protein-coupled receptors, ion channels, receptors, trafficking, signalling, migraine, inflammation | |
Associate Professor in Cellular Neuroscience Pharmacy Outreach/Marketing Lead School Director of Outreach |
Neurodegeneration, glial biology, gasotransmitters, ion channels/transporters | |
Dr Lizzy Lander | Lecturer in Pharmacology and Health Sciences | 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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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
Name |
Position and Responsibilities |
Research interests |
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 |
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 | |
Senior Teaching Fellow (CIPPET) Programme Director - Postgraduate Diploma in Foundation Pharmacy Practice |
Pharmacy practice, postgraduate, education | |
Senior Teaching Fellow (CIPPET) |
Primary care, clinical pharmacists, diabetes | |
Senior Teaching Fellow (CIPPET) Pharmacist Lead for Independent Prescribing Programme |
Physician Associate Programme
Name |
Position and Responsibilities |
Lecturer Physician Associate Programme | |
Dr Ishac Jalisi | Lecturer Physician Associate Programme |
Academic Director Physician Associate Programme | |
Lecturer Physician Associate Programme | |
Sam Warrior |
Lecturer Physician Associate Programme |
Research Staff
Name |
Email address |
Cristiana-Ioanna Bercea | c.bercea@reading.ac.uk |
Dr Adam Gadd | adam.gadd@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
Name |
Professor Angela Alexander |
Professor Vincenza Andrisano |
Professor Gavin Brooks |
Dr Marc Brown |
Dr Clare Crowley |
Dr Joanne Kitchen |
Dr Patrick Lewis |
Professor Luigi Martini |
Dr Charles McKenna |
Dr Rosa Montero |
Professor Alan Palmer |
Dr Mark Parry |
Dr Clare Rawlinson Malone |
Professor Kath Ryan |
Dr Arif Shivji |
Dr Nicola Stoner |
Professor Phillip Strange |
Professor Ben Whalley |
Professor Elizabeth Williamson |
Dr Stephen Wright |