Thomas Rades

Professor

University of Copenhagen

Professor Rades has developed an international reputation for his research in the physical characterization of drugs solid dosage forms as well as in vaccine delivery using nanoparticulate systems (both polymeric and lipid based). Professor Rades has published more than 500 papers in international peer review journals as well as several book chapters and patents and one book. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics. He holds an honorary doctorates of Åbo Akademie University, Finland, and Helsinki University, Finland, and an honorary professorship at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is an Eminent Fellow of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APS, UK), a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS, USA), a Member of the College of Fellows of the Controlled Release Society (CRS, USA), and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. Professor Rades has successfully supervised more than 80 PhD students. He was awarded the New Zealand Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for Sustained Excellence (2005) for his undergraduate and postgraduate teaching activities.

His research interests include the solid state of drugs and dosage forms, and nanoparticles as delivery systems for drugs and vaccines. Research in both areas aims to improve drug therapy through appropriate formulation and characterisation of medicines and to increase understanding of the physico-chemical properties of drugs and medicines. His research combines physical, chemical, and biological sciences and technology to optimally formulate drugs and vaccines for human and veterinary uses.