Associate Professor Matthias G. Wacker works in the Department of Pharmacy at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He earned his doctoral degree in pharmaceutical technology from Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany), where he also was a principal investigator and completed his habilitation1 under the guidance of Jennifer Dressman and Jörg Kreuter at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology. Prior to joining NUS, he headed the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Nanosciences at
Fraunhofer IME in Frankfurt. He serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals (e.g., European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Frontiers in Chemistry, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology) and has been recognized for his research excellence with awards such as the Eudragit® Best Paper Award and the Phoenix Pharmaceutics Science Award. He is a member of various committees and organizations, including the United States Pharmacopeial Convention‘s General Chapters – Dosage Forms Expert Committee and the Expert Panel on New Advancements in In-Vitro Product Performance Testing, as well as the International Organization for Standardization’s Technical Committee 229, which is responsible for developing nanotechnology standards. In his research, he focuses on using a quality-by-design approach to develop and characterize nanomedicines, with a particular emphasis on biopredictive release and in silico methods to establish in vitro-in vivo correlations. He was also recently recognized as one of the World’s Top 2% Scientists of 20222 by Standford University. His work has the potential to improve the selection of optimal formulation prototypes for preclinical or clinical translation.
LI Zhuoxuan
Ph.D. / Research Fellow
National University of Singapore / Wet Science Building (S9) / Level 15
Pharmacy Research Laboratories
Harshvardhan MODH
Ph.D. / Key Safety Lead and Research fellow
National University of Singapore / Wet Science Building (S9) / Level 15
Pharmacy Research Laboratories
Namrata DHAKAL
Pharmacist, Ph.D. student
National University of Singapore / Wet Science Building (S9) / Level 15
Pharmacy Research Laboratories
LEONG Kok Liang Dylan
Pharmacist, Ph.D. student
National University of Singapore / Wet Science Building (S9) / Level 15
Pharmacy Research Laboratories
Elena FECIORU
External Ph.D. student (PHAST-Eurofins)
Mail: fecioru [a] em.uni-frankfurt .de
David LI
Pharmacist, Ph.D. student
National University of Singapore / Wet Science Building (S9) / Level 15
Pharmacy Research Laboratories
Shakti NAGPAL
M.Pharma, Ph.D. student
National University of Singapore / Wet Science Building (S9) / Level 15
Pharmacy Research Laboratories
WANG Tianqi
MSc student
National University of Singapore / Wet Science Building (S9) / Level 15
Pharmacy Research Laboratories
Alumni
Research Fellows
- Bassam AL MESLMANI
- Mukul ASHTIKAR
- GAN Jun Hao Kennard
- Maria GOMES
- Saeed SHANEHSAZZADEH
- Perumal Samy RAMAR
Ph.D. students
- Susanne BEYER
Thesis title: Development of nanoparticulate drug formulations for the therapy of Multiple Sclerosis. - Laura JABLONKA
Thesis title: Development of physiology-based release and pharmacokinetic models for liposomal drug delivery systems - Christine JANAS
Thesis title: Development of an apparatus for in vitro testing of drug release from colloidal drug carriers. - Fabian JUNG
Thesis title: Development of a physiology-based pharmacokinetic model for micro- and nanoparticulate dosage forms with special consideration of environmental aspects. - Lisa NOTHNAGEL
Thesis title: Development of patient-friendly drug formulations of R-flurbiprofen for the therapy of Multiple Sclerosis. - GAO Ge, Fiona
Thesis title: Study on pharmacokinetics of subcutaneously injected depot formulations with biorelevant release tests and translational modeling strategies - Marc-Phillip MAST
All but dissertation - Chantal M. WALLENWEIN
All but dissertation
Ph.D. students (Co-Supervisor)
- Xie KIRSAMER
- Monica VILLA-NOVA
1 The term habilitation is derived from the Medieval Latin “habilitare“, meaning “to make suitable, to fit” and, in the German system, is obtained after several years of independent research. It is required to obtain the “venia legendi“, the permission to lecture at a university.
2 The ranking was based on a single-year snapshot of all citations in his research field in 2021 (10.17632/btchxktzyw.4).
