From Materials to Medicines: Sustainable Pharmaceutical Manufacturing through Hot-Melt Extrusion, 3D Printing and AI
Professor Gaisford is Vice-Dean (Impact & External Engagement) for the Faculty of Life Sciences and holds a Chair in Pharmaceutics. He joined UCL School of Pharmacy in 2003, having previously been a Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Huddersfield. He undertook his PhD at the University of Kent at Canterbury, under Professor AE Beezer and then held Postdoctoral Research Assistant posts at UCL School of Pharmacy with Profs DQM Craig and G Buckton. He has published 240 papers (h-index 81 with >26,000 citations), 8 book chapters and 4 books, made the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher list in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, is the Presenter of the educational YouTube channel Pharma Drama https://www.youtube.com/c/pharmadrama (with more than 50,000 subscribers) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
At UCL Prof Gaisford is a Member of the Faculty Technology Group, Faculty Advancement Group, Faculty Executive Committee, Senior Management Group and Faculty Outreach Committee. He is also a Biological Agent Peer Reviewer at UCL School of Pharmacy.
Externally, Prof Gaisford is External Examiner at BirkBeck (MSc) and is an Editorial Board Member of the journals Pharmaceutics, and International Journal of Pharmaceutics.
