12 September 2006
Professor Bill Charman, Director of the Centre for Drug Candidate Optimisation at Monash University, has received the International Career Achievement Award in Oral Drug Delivery from pharmaceutical company Eurand and the Controlled Release Society (USA).
The award is regarded as the premier international award in this field and is designed to encourage, recognize and reward innovative approaches in oral drug delivery.
Professor Charman delivered the keynote address at the Eurand AwardsSpecial Session at the Controlled Release Society's annual conference in July held in Vienna. His presentation, "Lipids, Lipophilic Drugs and Oral Drug Delivery", discussed the implications of recent discoveries concerning drug absorption and drug delivery.
Professor Charman, also Professor of Pharmaceutics at the Victorian College of Pharmacy, has research interests that include the bioavailability of poorly water-soluble drugs, lymphatic drug transport, and drug candidate optimisation.
He has published more than 320 scientific papers and communications. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, a fellow of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and a member of various scientific advisory boards.
Dr Stephen Perrett, Corporate Technology Director at Eurand, said it was a pleasure for Eurand and the CRS to recognize "the scientist behind such an extensive body of high calibre work".
"Professor Charman has made a major contribution to the science of drug delivery. This has not only been through his own efforts but also through the inspiration that his enthusiasm and excellence gives to new generations of scientists," Dr Perrett said.
Photographs of Professor Charman are available.
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