PROFESSOR
Qatar University, Qatar
Professor Nashiru Billa is a professor of drug delivery with the College of Pharmacy, Qatar University. He was the Chief Scientist of a Bioequivalence Research Laboratory (Equilab®), at the International Medical University, Malaysia. He joined the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus in 2005 and served as Associate Dean for Research & Knowledge Exchange and Deputy Head of School. He serves as an External Examiner to several Pharmacy Educational Curricula and is very research-active, having received numerous University, National, International grants worth millions of US dollars as Lead PI and CoPI, including a collaborative Euro FP7 Bio-design collaborative research grant worth 1.7 million Euros aimed at deciphering the fate of growth factors in porous and non-porous microspheres for use in bone tissue regeneration. He has published over 90 peer-reviewed research articles and supervised 5 Postdoctoral candidates, 18 PhD students.
Website: https://opentext.qu.edu.qa/sites/en_US/pharmacy/research-and-graduate-studies-offcie/research-office/faculty-bios