12th Aug, Yantai, The Professor of Pharmaceutics & Biopharmacy and Department Head at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, the expert in Non-viral vector gene transformation field has been appointed as Distinguished Expert in Luye Pharma Group Ltd.
The R&D VP Dr. Li youxin held the appointment ceremony, the group president Mr. Liu Dianbo addressed welcoming remarks and issued the letter of appointment to Prof. Thomas Kissel. After the ceremony, Thomas Kissel Professor delivered an academic report "Nano-Carriers for pulmonary siRNA and Gene Delivery".
About Professor Thomas H. Kissel
Thomas H. Kissel is Professor of Pharmaceutics & Biopharmacy and Department Head at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, where he has been since 1991. He received his B.S. (Pharmacy) from Freiburg University (1971), his M. S. (Chemistry, 1974) and his Ph.D. (Medicinal Chemistry, 1976) from Marburg University.
From 1978-1991 he has been Head of the Drug Delivery Systems Department at Sandoz Pharma AG, Basle, Switzerland. Thomas Kissel has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and chapters on various aspects of drug delivery systems. Research interests have included synthesis and characterization of biodegradable polyesters, parenteral depot delivery systems for proteins and vaccines, non-viral drug delivery systems based on polyplexes, transepithelial transport and metabolism of peptides and drug targeting using colloidal carriers.
He was Dean of the faculty of pharmacy in 1995/96. He served as President of the Controlled Release Society in 1998/99. He is recipient of the CRS Founder´s Award (2002), the Maurice-Marie Junot Award (2002) and the T. Nagai Research Achievement Award of the CRS and the Nagai Foundation Tokyo (2009).
Moreover, Thomas Kissel is Co-Editor of the Journal "Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews" and European Editor of the "Journal of Controlled Release". He was Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Drug Carriers in Medicine and Biology (2006). He serves on several editorial boards and is member of the German Pharmaceutical Society, Controlled Release Society, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and American Chemical Society.
In 2004, he was appointed as Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Utah, followed by the appointment as Adjunct Professor at Jilin University (2008) and Visiting Professor at Shenyang Pharmaceutical Society (2008).
Since 2005, he has been Speaker of the Research Group 627 "Polymeric nano-carriers for pulmonary drug delivery" of the DFG (German Research Foundation).