Murtaza Tambuwala
Lecturer
School of Pharm. & Pharmaceut. Sc.
Ulster University
Ireland
Biography
Dr. Murtaza Tambuwala is a pharmacist with a MSc in Pharmaceutical Technology from the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College, Ireland. He earned a PhD in Translational Therapeutics at the School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University College Dublin, Ireland in 2011 and has over six years of industrial formulation and drug delivery experience gained working with Sigmoid Pharma Ltd., Ireland.
Research Interest
His main area of research is development of therapeutics for chronic inflammatory bowel diseases and bowel cancer. Dr. Tambuwala was involved with the testing of novel prolyl hydroxylases inhibitors in in-vivo models of inflammatory bowel disease for J&J Inc. Currently he is working on solubility enhancement strategies for natural NFkB inhibitors such as curcumin to increase its bioavailability. The solubilised product will be tested in in-vitro / in-vivo models of inflammatory bowel disease and bowel cancer to confirm its therapeutic efficacy.
