Dr Joshua Boateng

Joshua Boateng BPharm MSc PhD FHEA Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Science/Formulation Science Room: Grenville 224 Email: j.s.boateng@gre.ac.uk Tel: 020 8331 8980 Fax: 020 8331 9805

Responsibilities

• Programme Leader, BSc (Hons) Forensic Science and BSc (Hons) Forensic Science with Criminology
• Course Coordinator, Bioinformatics Module (MSc Biotechnology)
• Convenor, PhD, MPhil & MRES Research Seminars
  

Areas of Research

Pharmaceutical Formulation and Drug Delivery

• Preformulation studies
• Physical and chemical characterisations of drug delivery systems
• Formulation of mucosal (wounds, buccal, sublingual) drug delivery systems
• Films and Freeze-dried polymeric systems for drug delivery
• Fast dissolving dosage forms
• Controlled drug release studies

Pharmaceutical and Biotechnological Analysis

• Quality of Pharmaceutical Formulations
• Fingerprinting of Pharmaceutical Biotech Products using Mass Spectrometry
  

Biomarker Discovery

• Mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF, LC-MS)
• Proteomics (protein and peptide biomarkers)
• Metabonomics (metabolic biomarkers)

PhD Students

1. Ms Farnoosh Kianfar: Novel polymer based formulations for delivering amorphous drugs via mucosal surfaces – University Funded
2. Mr Isaac Ayensu: Development of Novel Formulations for Mucosal Delivery of Protein Based Drugs – Commonwealth Scholarship Grant
3. Mr Mohammed Manirruzzaman: Development of Hot Melt Extrusion (HME) as a novel technique for the formulation of oral solid dosage forms – ORSAS Funded

MRES Students

1. Harshavardhan Pawar: Micro- and nano- particulate systems for nasal delivery of insulin
   

Biography

Dr Boateng obtained his Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in February 1999 (First Class Honours) and proceeded to pursue an MSc in Pharmaceutical Analysis programme at the University of Strathclyde under a DFID Commonwealth Scholarship, graduating in November 2000. He subsequently undertook PhD research in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Drug Delivery and Formulation) under a Pfizer sponsored project at the University of Strathclyde, graduating from 2001 till 2005. He then took up a Postdoctoral position at the Nottingham Trent University as part of a WADA sponsored consortium on detecting gene doping in sports, using proteomic approaches (2005-2008). Dr Boateng still maintains active research interests in all the above areas. He joined the School of Science at Greenwich University in August 2007 as Lecturer in Formulation Science.

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