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Biography

Ashim K Mitra was recently named one of two recipients for the 2007 ARVO/Pfizer Ophthalmics Translational Research Award He is the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Research for the University of MissouriKansas City August 2004 and Director of Translational Research at UMKC School of Medicine He is also the University of Missouri Curators’ Professor of Pharmacy and UMKC’s Chairman of Pharmaceutical Sciences School of Pharmacy He joined his current position after serving as an Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy at Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana He is the author and coauthor over 250 research articles book chapters and review papers Dr Mitra is the recipient of a numbers of research awards from the National Institutes of Health the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and numerous pharmaceutical organizations He is the 1999 recipient of the University Trustee’s Faculty Research award from the University of Missouri and 1992 recipient of National Collegiate Inventor of the Year Award from the National Invention Center and the BF Goodrich Corporation He has served as the editor of a book titled “Ophthalmic Drug Delivery Systems” which is currently in its second edition and coeditor of “Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Research Interest

His research interests also include nasal and pulmonary delivery of macromolecular drugs particularly peptides and proteins.

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