Dr Shahzeb Khan
Assistant Professor
Faculty/Dept/School |
School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences (Faculty of Life Sciences) |
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s.khan131@bradford.ac.uk | |
Telephone | +441274 233574 |
Biography
Shahzeb Khan is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetic Sciences in the Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering Science (CPES) at the Faculty of Life Science, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences. Shahzeb Khan earned his first degree in Pharmacy (B.Pharmacy) with distinction from Faculty of Pharmacy, Gomal University DI Khan, Pakistan followed by M.Phil leading to PhD in Molecular Pharmaceutics from the School of Pharmacy University of Bradford in 2012. Dr Khan has 15 years of teaching and research experience in different universities of the world including UK, Pakistan, Malaysia, South Africa, Republic of Ireland and United States. In addition, He has also worked for two years in the Sanofi Aventis as a Production Pharmacist. Dr Khan is the recipient of several prestigious postdoctoral fellowships which include Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, TWAS-NRF, CAS, Marie curie co-fund (PROCESS). He has worked for one year as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Pharmacy, University of Texas at Austin USA. He has also worked as a Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at the Faculty of Pharmacy, UiTM Malaysia. He was also the in-charge of production department of GMP certified Cosmetics unit within the faculty of Pharmacy, UiTM. During his postdoc at SSPC, University of Limerick Ireland which was funded by SFI, he worked on the development of supercritical Co2 Fluid technology for isolation of drug nanoparticles using the carrier particles. In 2016, Dr Khan was appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Health Sciences, University of Kawa Zulu Natal, Durban South Africa which has recently been renewed up to 2025. Dr Khan has successfully supervised 10 PhD and a number of M.Phil, MS and PharmD dissertations. He has published > 100 research and review articles within the Q1 Journals including Crystals Growth& Design, Nanomedicine, JCR, Polymers, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Pharmaceutics, Colloids and Surfaces B, Cancers, Chemical Engineering and Angewandte Chemie International. One of the key articles on secondary crystal nucleation published in Angewandte Chemie International with VIP tag which got a tremendous attraction and published by the University of Cambridge in its monthly research News Letter. Additionally, this work has also been published as a breakthrough by the well known publishers including ScienceDaily, Physics.Org, Europe PMC and Lancaster University. The links are given as below
Crystal clear: Crystal breeding factory uncovered -- ScienceDaily
Secondary Crystal Nucleation: Nuclei Breeding Factory Uncovered. - Abstract - Europe PMC
Crystal clear: crystal breeding factory uncovered | Lancaster University
The Lancaster university also published a press release on this breakthrough. Dr Khan has secured >3.0million USD research grants both as a PI and Co-PI from different national and international research organisations. Dr Khan has also published many book chapters. He got a good citations and h-index record (citations :2642, h-index :28 )