Waseem Kaialy

Biography

Dr Kaialy (BPharm, MPhil, PhD, FHEA) obtained his BPharm degree in Damascus University where he was awarded five Academic-Excellence awards (2003 to 2007) and an overseas summer training scholarship award (T3 Pharmaceuticals, Cairo, Egypt). He graduated on 2007 with the honour of the Top Graduate student. He has been a qualified pharmacist since 2007 and worked as a pharmacy manager from 2007 to 2008. Then, he worked as a teaching assistant in the Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology Department at the School of Pharmacy, University of Damascus, Syria from 2008 to 2009. He completed his PhD studies on pharmaceutics-drug delivery in 2013 at the University of Kent (UK) in collaboration with Pfizer (Sandwich, UK). He held a research associate postdoctoral post at University in Kent, UK (2013) where he did consultancies for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries LTD (USA). Waseem has been a Visiting Research at Luleå University of Technology (Sweden), holding an ERAS Fellowship (University of Wolverhampton), and a fellowship of the higher education academy (FHEA). In 2014, he was appointed as a Lecturer/Senior lecturer in pharmaceutics at University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Research Interest

Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutics, Drug Delivery, Inhalation, Solid Dosage Forms, Particle Engineering. Waseem’s ongoing research topics include particle engineering of excipients and drugs in order to improve their physicochemical, physicomechanical and biopharmaceutical properties for better oral and pulmonary delivery. The aspiration of his combined expertise in different drug delivery areas is to deliver ‘proof of concept’ for specific engineered particles and particle engineering strategies that will ultimately attain ‘concept of clinic’ approach to development of these excipients.