Key details
Professor Joshua S Boateng
Professor in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, Associate Head of School - Research and Knowledge Exchange (School of Science)
Professor Joshua Boateng obtained his Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana) in February 1999 (First Class Honours) and then pursued 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, from 2001-05. Subsequently, he took up a postdoctoral position at the Nottingham Trent University as part of a WADA-sponsored consortium on investigating surrogate biomarkers for detecting gene doping in sports, using mass spectrometry based proteomic approaches (2005-07).
Professor Joshua Boateng still maintains active research interests in all the above areas and published extensively as well as presented at several conferences around the above themes. He joined the School of Science at the University of Greenwich in August 2007 and is currently a Professor in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery and Associate Head of School - Research and Knowledge Exchange for the School of Science.
Responsibilities within the university
PhD supervision, Module Leadership, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching, Research Project Supervision, School of Science Exams Officer, REF Unit of Assessment (UoA 3) Lead
Awards
- 2009 - Early Career Researcher Excellence Award, University of Greenwich.
Recognition
- Fellow, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- Fellow, Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (FAPS)
- Member, Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Member, American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Editorial Board Member, Polymers (MDPI)
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Pharmacological Sciences.
Research / Scholarly interests
Professor Boateng belongs to the pharmaceutical science research cluster within the School of Science. He works in an interdisciplinary range of research areas covering pharmaceutics (formulation and drug delivery), pharmaceutical analysis and proteomics as outlined below:
MEDICATED WOUND DRESSINGS
- Natural plant extracts-based dressings
- Biomaterial scaffolds for delivering growth factors to chronic wounds
- Mechanism of action of cannabidiol/designing effective dressing for wound healing
3D PRINTING/BIOPRINTING
- 3D printing/bioprinting of cell laden scaffolds for skin regeneration
- 3D printing of drug-eluting devices for women's health applications
NANOMEDICINE
- Use of nanoparticles to enhance bioavailability of antimalarial drugs
- Mucosal vaccines using mucoadhesive nanoparticles
- Nanocarriers in optimising complement regulators in hereditary angioedema.
- Growth factor-loaded nanoparticles within electropinned nanofibres for chronic wound healing
- Stimuli responsive microgel-loaded dressings for delivering drugs to wounds
- Anti-inflammatory-antibiotics-loaded nanoparticles for treating acne vulgaris
MUCOSAL DRUG DELIVERY
- 3D printed films for buccal drug delivery
- Novel vaginal delivery systems for treating local infections
- Drug eluting films/contact lenses for treating eye diseases
ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE
- Chemical modifications/characterisation of antimicrobial peptides for enhanced therapeutic efficacy.
- Synthesis/evaluation of antimicrobial peptide libraries for structure-activity relationship studies
- Smart dressings to overcome biofilm formation and antimicrobial resistance.
Key funded projects
- Department for International Development / Commonwealth Scholarship Commission “Novel Drug Delivery System for Oral Antimalarial Delivery to Paediatric Patients in Africa
- Innovate UK, Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) “To Develop an Internal R&D Facility for the Production of Non-soluble Pharmaceuticals Molecules Using Hot Melt Extrusion, to Produce Pharmaceutical Finished Dosage Forms”
- EU Interreg IMODE project “Development of Drug Eluting Stent”
- VC Scholarship “3D Bioprinting of Scaffolds for Chronic Wound Healing”
- VC PhD Scholarship “Novel Skin Substitutes and Wound Dressings Based on Fish Skin Model for the Treatment of Hard to Heal Wounds”