Distinguish Professor
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Rajesh Davé, Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), and National Academy of Inventors (NAI) is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He has made significant impact to particle technology and pharmaceutical sciences for improved understanding of particle behavior influenced by their particle-scale properties, formation, processing, and cost-efficient manufacturing. His high-impact contributions include fundamentally based understanding of the effect of surface modification of drug or excipient particles, surface energetics of drug particle milling, functionalization and stabilization of nano and low micron sized particle suspensions and their composites, as well as development of platform technologies for taste-masking and thin polymeric films as a patient compliant platform for precision medicine. His research contributions to date include 195 journal papers (14700+ Google citations, H-Index 64), numerous invited and keynote presentations as well as 22 issued patents. He has granted 37 PhDs to students, seven of those have been placed in US academia. His awards include 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE) PD2M Award for Outstanding Contribution to QbD for Drug Product, 2016 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award, and 2015 AIChE Particle Technology Forum Fluidization Lectureship.