Howard Stevens PhD, BPharm

Howard Stevens graduated with a BPharm degree from London University in 1967 followed by a PhD from Heriot-Watt University in 1970. In 1970 he entered the pharmaceutical industry and worked initially at The Boots Company (1970-74), then at ER Squibb & Sons (1974-78) before taking up the post of Head of Pharmaceutical Development with Synthelabo in Paris in 1978. Ten years later he returned to the UK to take up a board position with PolySystems Ltd (the company was later acquired and transformed into Scherer DDS Ltd).

In 1995 he was appointed professor of Drug Delivery at Strathclyde University and was awarded a Pfizer Personal Chair in 1998. He is a Member of RPSGB (1971) and was made a Fellow in 1998. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He served as Chairman of APSGB from 2001-2002. At Strathclyde, Professor Stevens leads a drug delivery research group of post-graduate and post-doctoral scientists, undertaking research in nasal delivery using bioadhesive lyophilised systems and in oral controlled release formulations. He is particularly interested in the in-vivo performance of formulations in both man and animal models and is founder and Chairman of Bio-Images Research Ltd, a spin-out company devoted to investigational research on the fate of pharmaceutical preparations in-vivo.