Associate Vice President for Research
University of Iowa
Aliasger Salem is the Associate Vice President for Research for the University of Iowa and Bighley Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy. He was educated in applied chemistry at Aston University of Science and Technology, Birmingham, UK (BSc 1998). He received his Ph.D. in pharmacy at the University of Nottingham, UK in 2002. He then received postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine until 2004. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for Pharmaceutical Scientists, an elected fellow of the Controlled Release Society, an elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He currently serves on the executive board of the American Association for Pharmaceutical Scientists. Dr. Salem's research expertise is in drug discovery, development, formulation and delivery. Dr. Salem applies this expertise to developing therapies for regenerative medicine, cancer and other diseases. He is the author of over 260 peer-reviewed scholarly publications and has published in journals that include Science Advances, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Nature Reviews Urology, Science Translational Medicine, Advanced Materials, The AAPS Journal, Bioconjugate Chemistry, Biomaterials, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Research, the Journal of Controlled Release, and the International Journal of Pharmaceutics.