Biography

Dr. Medha D Joshi has received his PhD in Pharmaceutics from Institute of Chemical technology, University of Mumbai, India in July 2006.She has post-doctoral experience for more than four years from Free University of Berlin, Germany and Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She has worked for Ocean Nanotech, AR for production and development of lipid based nanoparticle systems for diagnostics purpose. Currently, she is working as Assistant Professor in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Midwestern University’s Chicago College of Pharmacy. She has successfully completed her Administrative responsibilities as member of curriculum, research and patent committee. She has expertise in lipid based drug delivery systems including micro emulsions, liposome technology and targeted drug delivery. She holds intramural grants and a grant from Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery foundation to support her research. Apart from research, she is the course director and instructor various pharmaceutics courses of the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum at Chicago College of Pharmacy. Based on this research and fellowship training she has received several awards and honors such as: best poster presentations awards at drug delivery symposiums and conferences, DeutscherAkademischerAustauschDienst (DAAD)scholarship, Young scientist travel grant and university rank.She is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals likeJournal of Pharmaceutical & Biological Sciences (JPBS), Enzyme Engineering Journal, J SciMed Central – JSM Cell, Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine, Journal of Cell Biology and Cell Metabolism. She has authored 20 research articles and holds 2 patents and a book chapter to her credit. She is a member ofAmerican Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), Controlled release Society (CRS), American Nano Society, USA , American association of colleges of pharmacy (AACP).

 

Medha D Joshi

Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Midwestern University
Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
Phone: 630-515-6963
E-mail: mjoshi@midwestern.edu