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Dr Amos Abioye

Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Technologies

Qualifications: BPharm, PhD

 

Current Research Interests

  • Design, synthesis and use of ionic polymers to optimize oral delivery of antibiotics and hydrophobic drugs
  • Self assembly behaviour of surfactants and block copolymers and their intermolecular complexation
  • Construction of bio-mimetic multilayer membranes from polyelectrolyte nanoparticles
  • Elucidation of polymer architecture variables controlling the formation of nanosystems including micelles, vesicles and dense nanoparticles
  • Release kinetics and stability profile of oral dosage forms
  • Rational Drug Design and Molecular basis of Antibiotics resistance
  • Formulation process optimization and modelling using Computer Aided Process Design and simulation tools

Contact details
Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK
Tel. +44 (0)116 207 8669
Email : aabioye@dmu.ac.uk

Biography Dr Abioye is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technologies in the Leicester School of Pharmacy, DeMontfort University. He was trained as a Pharmacist at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. He obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and was appointed as a Lecturer in the same University.
His research interests span the fundamental properties and applications of polymeric materials and surfactants. A major part of his research concerns exploiting the electrostatic self assembly behaviour of surfactants and copolymers, their intermolecular complexation and the finite size of the complex to stabilize charged drug molecules and develop more robust and distinctive delivery nanosystems to act as release controlling, solubilizing and targeting strategies.  Phenomena such as micelles, mixed micelles, polymer micelles, nano emulsions, nano encapsulation, surfactant-polymer interaction, complex coacervation and adsorption at solid interfaces are among his research focus
The other major aspect of his research pertains to the application of phase separation of block polymers and surface chemistry of surfactants and polyelectrolyte to the rational drug design and development of drug delivery tools for antibiotics and poorly water soluble drugs.