New Zealand's National School of Pharmacy
University of Otago
Adams Building
18 Frederick Street
PO Box 913
Dunedin
New Zealand

Tel.: +64 (0) 3 479 5410
Fax: +64 (0) 3 479 7034

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Research interests are in formulation and drug delivery and physical characterisation of the solid and liquid crystalline state of matter. The research in both areas aims to improve drug therapy through appropriate formulation of medicines and to increase our understanding of the physico-chemical properties of drugs and medicines. It combines physical, chemical, and biological sciences and technology to optimally formulate drugs for human and veterinary uses. Specific research interests are: Nanoparticles as delivery systems for bioactives, and the solid state of drugs and dosage forms.

Professor Thomas Rades is the Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the National School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, New Zealand (since 2003).  He received a PhD from the University of Braunschweig, Germany for his work on thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystalline drugs.

During the last 12 years Professor Rades has developed an international reputation for his research in drug delivery and physical characterisation of drugs. Prof Rades has published more than 115 papers in international peer review journals.  He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Controlled Release, the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, the Journal of Biomaterials Science and Die Pharmazie. Prof Rades also holds a guest professorship at the Department of Medicine at the University of Adelaide and is the President of the New Zealand Controlled Release Society.

Professor Rades has successfully supervised more than 25 PhD and Masters Students. For his undergraduate and postgraduate teaching he was awarded the New Zealand Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for Sustained Excellence, 2005.

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