Dr. Rahamatullah Shaikh

Dr Rahamatullah Shaikh is a Pharmacist and Assistant Professor in Industrial Pharmaceutics at the Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering Science (CPES), School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of Bradford, he is also CPES Health and Safety Lead. Dr Rahamat has diverse international research experience in academia and pharmaceutical industry including cocrystallization, industrial crystallization, process analytical technology, particle engineering, drug formulation development and delivery and continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing. Prior to his current role, Rahamat held role at APC Ltd (Pharmaceutical CRO), Dublin. He successfully oversaw and managed developmental projects involving small-molecule crystallization process development and GC, HPLC and solid-state characterization and to both US and European clients. He obtained his PhD in 2020, under the supervision of Prof Gavin Walker at Synthesis and Solid-State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC), University of Limerick, Ireland with a Thesis entitled "Continuous mechanochemical preparation and formulation of pharmaceutical cocrystals and it’s solid processing”. He subsequently worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Limerick investigating continuous processing of pharmaceutical cocrystal drug products as part of the SFI funded SSPC. During his MPhil at the School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University Belfast, UK. He has formulated novel buccoadhesive buccal patches intended for clinical application to mouth ulcers, this was an industry project. His developed formulation has been patented.  

Dr Shaikh boasts an impressive publication record as an early-stage researcher with over 12 peer-reviewed scientific publications in high-impact journals, a h-index of 10, and a total of 1,465 citations. He has also contributed a book chapter on “The development of a pharmaceutical oral solid dosage forms” to highly regarded book Computer Aided Chemical Engineering (vol. 41) published by Elsevier. He is a regular reviewer for a number of journals including Int. J. Pharm., Cryst. Growth. Des., and J. Mol. Liq. Guest Editor and Early Career Editorial Board Member for Pharmaceutics (MDPI). Peer reviewed for BBSRC (Standard Research Grant: Responsive Mode) research funding body.  

He is actively involved in community outreach and education, he strives to bring science to a wider audience, including his previous roles as outreach working group at SSPC (University of Limerick), where he hosted schools on campus or went out to science events in schools (for example, spectroscopy in a suitcase). He also volunteered to support the department’s outreach activities, like Limerick engineering programme.  

Dr Rahamat’s teaching philosophy is to generate curiosity in his students to develop their own critical thinking skills. He is passionate about helping his students become successful pharmacists and researcher. He experienced in lecturing at the University of Limerick, contributing to various chemistry modules within the department of Chemical Sciences. He was a module coordinator for CH4554 and involved in instructing CH4354, CH4303 and CH4304 modules. During this tenure he gained expertise in blended learning delivery.  

Dr Rahamat teaches Pharmaceutics at University of Bradford across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes namely: MPharm, BSc PharmCosSci and MSc Pharmaceutical Technology and Medicines Control and supervises a range of MPharm and MSc Pharm Tech research projects. He is also a Personal Academic Tutor for students at all stages of the MPharmacy course. 

He has been a member of the curriculum development committee for the MPharm and BSc PharmCosSci programmes at the School of Pharmacy since December 2022, contributing to course content design, delivery methods, and assessments for various modules. He led the changes to dosage form design and development, module PHA4011 (MPharm) according to new General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) guidelines. He taught MPharm course using a team-based learning (TBL) format, where he has contributed to designing student study pack, application exercises (AEs), delivery of introduction, support sessions, readiness assurance process (RAP), laboratory and summary sessions. For the newly introduced BSc PharmCosSci programme, he has played a key role in designing modules such as Formulation Science, Integrated Laboratory, Research Project and Skills Development, and Sustainable Product Development. He is also a panel member for standard setting of written exams on the MPharm programme. 

Dr Rahamat is involved in teaching the following modules for School of Pharmacy students:

MPharm programme 

Life Cycle of Medicine – PHA4009-C    

Leads, Dosage form Design and Development – PHA4011-E   

Safe Prescribing, Research and Development – PHA7084-E  

BSc Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Science programme 

Module lead, Integrated Laboratory, Research Project and Skills Development – PHA6025-D 

Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Preformulation – PHA4013-D  

Fundamentals of Formulation Development and Manufacturing Technology – PHA5016-D 

Human Physiology, Biochemistry and Microbiology – PHA4014-D  

Sustainable Product Development – PHA5017-B  

MSc Pharmaceutical Technology and Medicines Control programme 

Fundamentals of Drug Delivery – PHA6005-B  

Science of Solid Dosage Forms and Advanced Pharmaceutical Technologies – PHA7007-B  

Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) and Quality by Design (QbD) – PHA7050-B  

Critical Appraisal of a Current Topic in Pharmaceutical Sciences – PHA7005-B 

Research Project – PHA7011-E