document.writeln('Curriculum Vitae Professor Lisbeth Illum
Professor Lisbeth Illum was the founder and for 12 years the Managing Director of DanBioSyst UK Ltd. (now Archimedes Ltd), a company that specialised in development of Drug Delivery Systems. She was the Managing Director of Phaeton Research Ltd. and is Director of IDentity, a consultancy company. She is also associated with Nottingham University as a Special Professor where she supervises several postgraduate students.
She was awarded her M. Pharm, Ph. D and D.Sc. from the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy in 1972, 1978 and 1988, respectively. Her research expertise covers the areas of novel drug delivery systems for difficult drugs such as polar small molecular weight compounds and peptides and proteins. She has studied novel approaches to delivery of such drugs using transmucosal routes such as the nasal, the oral and the vaginal.
She has published more than 300 scientific papers (is among the top 100 most cited scientists on pharmacology) and has co-edited four books including "Peptide Drug Delivery Systems" published by Plenum Press, 1986. She has filed nearly fifty patens on novel drug delivery systems. She has been awarded the title of "Docent" in the Royal Danish School of Pharmacy and has been the recipient of several scientific awards, latest the Eurand Career Achievement Award 2007. She has been elected a Fellow of the AAPS and is presently the President Elect of the CRS. She has lectured throughout the world at conferences and workshops. She is on the Editorial Boards of seven scientific journals and is a consultant to several multinational pharmaceutical companies.
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