Abdul Basit PhD

Professor Abdul Basit graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Pharmacy in 1993 from the University of Bath. Abdul undertook his pharmacy pre-registration training at Pfizer and became a registered pharmacist in 1994. He joined the School of Pharmacy, University of London (now UCL School of Pharmacy of University College London) in 1994 where he completed his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics.

Since 2010 Abdul holds the position of Professor of Pharmaceutics at the UCL School of Pharmacy and is internationally leading in the field of gastroenterology, oral drug delivery, and innovative technologies such as three-dimensional (3D) printing of medicines.

Across his career, Abdul has received prestigious awards from the AAPS (Young Investigator Award in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology), Glaxo Smith Kline (Innovative Science Award), AstraZeneca (Pharmaceutical Science Award), and the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APS Science Award). Abdul was appointed the European Editor of the International Journal of Pharmaceutics. In 2019 and 2020, Abdul was listed amongst the World's Most Highly Influential Researchers by the Web of Science.