Pharmaceutical Formulations & Drug Delivery

Biography

Dr Larhrib was educated at the University of Sciences and Technology, Lille I and the faculty of Pharmacy, Lille II, France where he obtained an MSc Biochem, DU Pharm, DESS Pharm. Tech., a certificate in Pharm. Chemistry and . He moved to the UK to do a PhD in Pharmaceutical technology at Liverpool John Moores University, using high speed compaction simulator to fundamentally study the mechanism of compaction of pharmaceutical powders under the supervision of Dr. James Wells and Prof. Mike Rubinstein (1994-1998). Following his PhD, Dr Larhrib worked for 4 years (1998-2002) as Senior Research Fellow in Pharmaceutics at the Department of Pharmacy, King’s College London. He worked at Liverpool John Moores University as a Senior lecturer in Pharmaceutics for 6 years (2002-2007) before joining the industry; Solid Solution Limited, Liverpool (2007-2010). He was involved in cosmetic products development and manufacture. He moved to Medway school of Pharmacy before joining the University of Huddersfield as a Senior lecturer in Pharmaceutics in July 2011. Dr. Larhrib is a regular reviewer for many international Pharmaceutical journals and member of editorial board of journal of International Research in Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and British Journal of Pharmaceutical Research. He is an academic member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and Fellow of HEA.

Research Interest

Research interests: - Mechanism of compaction of Pharmaceutical powders. - Particle Engineering to enhance therapeutic value of medicines. - Nanomedicine design, formulation and delivery. - Transdermal drug delivery - Pharmaceutical Aerosols - Cosmetics design, formulation and manufacture.