Anthony A. Attama

Anthony Amaechi Attama is a Professor of Pharmaceutics and Director, Institute for Drug-Herbal Medicines-Excipients Research and Development, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was at various times the Director, Education Innovation Unit and the Dean, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and the Dean, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Agbani. He has held many other positions in the University. Prof. Attama was an Alexander von Humboldt scholar at Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada (IMRIC), Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Prof. Attama coordinates the Drug Delivery and Nanomedicines Research Laboratory of the University, which focuses on the improvement of the efficacy of drugs used for the treatment of mostly neglected tropical and poverty-related diseases, through engineering of novel drug delivery strategies. He has researched extensively on lipid and polymeric drug delivery systems- micro and nanomedicines using natural, semi-synthetic and synthetic raw materials. Prof. Attama has received many awards, honours, research and travel grants, and has attended many scientific conferences, workshops, special and certificate courses. He has delivered many invited lectures, plenary lectures and keynote addresses in different conferences/workshops and is on the editorial board of many national and international journals. Prof. Attama has successfully supervised many Ph.D and master’s degree students in pharmaceutical sciences. He has published many research articles in peer-reviewed high impact journals, which has translated to a very high Google Scholar Citation and two patents in nanomedicines. Prof. Attama is also a research grant proposal reviewer for many international bodies and professorial assessor for many universities in and outside Nigeria. He is member of many professional organisations. In a bid to translate research results to products, he has fostered the establishment of some pharmaceutical industries in Nigeria and serves as a consultant to many pharmaceutical companies on formulation development and pharmaceutical quality systems. Prof. Attama is a registered pharmacist and a Federal Government licenced drug analyst. He is happily married with children.