Ravikumar Majeti#
Membership Number: | 5594 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
Affiliated section(s): | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2021 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Homepage(s): | http://thekumarlab.ua.edu/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0001-5606-401X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021/10 - current Professor (Joint), Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Alabama, USA
- 2021/09 - current Founding Director, Center for Convergent Bioscience and Medicine (CCBM), The University of Alabama, USA
- 2021/09 - current Distinguished University Research Professor, The University of Alabama, USA
- 2021/01 - current Professor (Primary), College of Community Health Sciences, The University of Alabama, USA
- 2021/01 - current Professor (Adjunct), Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of Alabama, USA
- 2013/11 - 2021/01 Professor, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
- 2008/01 - 2013/10 Professor of Drug Delivery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
- 2003/09 - 2007/12 Assistant Professor, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali, India
- 2002/06 - 2003/08 AvH Fellow, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
- 2000/08 - 2002/06 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Precision-polyesters for ligand-receptor stoichiometry optimization
- Non-competitive active targeting strategies
- Oral drug delivery platform technologies
- Autoimmune, inflammatory, infectious, and vascular disease conditions
- Responsive delivery systems
Honours and Awards
- 2007 Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Medal for Young Scientist, India
- 2008 Tom Gibson Memorial Award, British Society of Plastic Surgeons & the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, UK
- 2009 British Pharmaceutical Conference Science Medal, UK
- 2018 T. Nagai (Controlled Release Society, USA) Outstanding Researcher Advisor
- 2018 Elected a Fellow, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)
- 2019 Elected a Foreign Fellow, Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences (APAS)
- 2020 Elected a Foreign Fellow, European Academy of Sciences
- 2020 Distinguished Scientist Award of International Journal of Nanomedicine
- 2020 Elected a Member Sigma xi The Scientific Research Honor Society
- 2020 Elected a Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2021 Featured on the Medicine Maker ‘Power List 20 for 2021’ https://themedicinemaker.com/power-list/2021
- 2021 Humboldt Research Award