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Allan Coombes Allan Coombes is an Associate Professor at the School of Pharmacy, after taking up the position in 2007.
Associate Professor Coombes obtained his first degree in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Nottingham University and his PhD in Polymer Physics from Bristol University. Post-doctoral research followed in the area of bioengineering at University College London, bone substitution at the University of Texas in San Antonio, nano and microparticle drug carriers and vaccine formulation at the School of Pharmacy, Nottingham University.
A short spell at Quadrant Healthcare working on controlled protein delivery was followed by a research fellowship in tissue engineering at Nottingham University. Assoc. Professor Coombes was appointed Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at Aston University, Birmingham, UK in 1998, Senior lecturer in Pharmaceutics at Sydney University in 2003 and Professor in Pharmaceutics at Kingston University London’s new School of Pharmacy in 2005.
In-depth teaching experience in pharmaceutical formulation and physicochemical characterisation is complemented by an extensive publication record in the fields of advanced drug delivery, vaccine formulation, biomaterials and tissue engineering. He has attracted/helped attract a total of $1.7 million research funding over the last 7 years, is an inventor on 10 patent applications/pending and has supervised/co-supervised 6 PhD students to completion.
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