Biography

Dr. Omidian earned his Ph.D. in polymer science (1997) from Brunel University (UK), and obtained his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in chemical engineering from Tehran Polytechnic (Iran) in 1990 and 1987, respectively. He has served in both academia and industry for 25 years at different positions including head of the department, assistant professor, editor and lecturer in Iran Polymer Institute and Iran University Press. He joined Purdue University in 2001, and pursued his postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Kinam Park at the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy (IPPH). He joined industry in 2002, and served as principal scientist, research manager and senior research scientist at Kos Pharmaceuticals and Abbott Laboratories, where he has been principal investigator of a number of product development projects in the area of gastric retention drug delivery systems and diet aid. Dr. Omidian has received multiple grants to continue his research on Abuse-Deterrent Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms, Oral Gastric Retention technologies, and Developing Polymers to Reduce Alcohol Absorption in the Systemic Circulation. He recently filed seven invention disclosures with the Nova’s Research and Technology Transfer office on abuse-deterrent pharmaceutical dosage forms, of which five inventions have so far been filed as provisional patent applications. He is also collaborating with the college of Dental Medicine to develop new tissue engineering scaffolds. He is an editor and regular reviewer of many peer-reviewed journals in the area of polymers and pharmaceutical sciences.