Sahar Awaad
UCL, UK
Biography
Sahar Awwad is a Post-doctoral Research Scientist at the University College London, School of Pharmacy, UK. She has recently completed her PhD under the supervision of Professor Steve Brocchini and Professor Sir Peng Tee Khaw. She obtained two scholarships for her PhD: (i) UCL Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS), and (ii) NIHR Biomedical Research in Ophthalmology at Moorfields Hospital. She has done her MSc in Drug Delivery from the University of London, School of Pharmacy (London, UK) and BPharm from Jamia Hamdard University (New Delhi, India). She has worked on various projects that have resulted in the development of a new in vitro model of ocular pharmaceutics along with a new strategy for extending the duration of action of therapeutic proteins in the eye. Her projects are widely based on drug delivery, ocular pharmaceutics, determination of IVIVCs for ocular PK and biodistribution properties, protein production, protein modification and protein characterization (surface plasmon resonance, stability and activity). She is the Co-founder of Optceutics Ltd., a new company utilizing the
PK-Eye to develop new formulations.
Abstract
Abstract : A new model for developing intravitreal formulations