Professor
University of Minnesota
Raj Suryanarayanan (Sury) is Professor and William and Mildred Peters Endowed Chair at the College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota. He obtained his B.Pharm. and M.Pharm. degrees from Banaras Hindu University, India and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Pharmaceutics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. The overall goal of his research is to apply principles of pharmaceutical materials science to the design of robust pharmaceutical dosage forms with reproducible and predictable properties. His research group has developed low temperature powder X-ray diffractometric techniques to study frozen and freeze-dried pharmaceutical systems. He is a consultant to numerous pharmaceutical companies and was a member of the USP Expert Committee (Excipients test methods). He is a fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) and is a past chair of the Teachers of Pharmaceutics Section of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Sury is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Minnesota, and is the recipient from AAPS of the Outstanding Educator Award and the David Grant Research Achievement Award in Physical Pharmacy and the PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) Foundation Award. He is an Associate Editor of Molecular Pharmaceutics.