Honorary Doctorate Lecture: Peter Langguth
- Date: 29 January 2026, 13:30–15:30
- Location: University Main Building, Lecture Hall X
- Type: Lecture
- Lecturer: Dr Peter Langguth, Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Organiser: Faculty of Pharmacy
- Contact person: Mathias Hallberg
- Research topic: Drug development
The Faculty of Pharmacy welcomes you to meet our new honorary doctor Peter Langguth, Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, as he presents his Honorary Doctorate Lecture Lipoplexes and solid lipid nanoparticles for the delivery of RNA.
“It is with pride and gratitude that I accept the appointment as Honorary Doctor of Pharmacy at Uppsala’s Faculty of Pharmacy. It is a tradition and an institution whose good reputation I am well acquainted with, and I am very much looking forward to experience the conferment ceremony together with the distinguished awardees of this honor,” stated Peter Langguth when appointed.
Thursday 29 January, you have the opportunity to meet Peter Langguth at the Honorary Doctorate Lecture Lipoplexes and solid lipid nanoparticles for delivery of RNA. The presentation highlights Professor Langguth's many contributions to the pharmaceutical sciences, not least for the development of mRNA-based vaccines against COVID-19.
“Professor Langguth is an exceptional researcher and a committed, generous and highly regarded collaborator in our faculty's operations, which makes him an utterly deserving Honorary Doctor of Pharmacy. In addition to a very interesting lecture, we wish Professor Langguth a wonderful experience in Uppsala and a grand Winter conferment ceremony,” say Hans Lennernäs, Professor of Biopharmacy, and Mathias Hallberg, Dean at the Faculty of Pharmacy.
Program
13.30–13.40 Welcome address
Mats Larhed, Vice-Rector
Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy
13.40–14.40 Faculty of Medicine Honorary doctorate lectures
14.40–15.00 Coffee break
15.00–15.20 Faculty of Pharmacy Honorary doctorate lecture
Host
Mathias Hallberg, Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy
Lipoplexes and solid lipid nanoparticles for delivery of RNA
Dr. Peter Langguth
Professor in Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany)
15.20–15.30 Concluding remarks
Mathias Hallberg, Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy
Karin Forsberg Nilsson, Dean, Faculty of Medicine
Facts Peter Langguth
- Is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutic at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.
- Has served as Dean, received international awards and held key positions within Germany’s pharmaceutical community.
- Has conducted research on various types of innovative and advanced dosage forms, with a focus on optimising drug delivery.
- Has built a GMP manufacturing laboratory that provides the manufacture and translation of novel delivery forms from preclinical phase to clinical studies in human volunteers and patients.
- Has collaborated with Uppsala's Faculty of Pharmacy for many decades and contributed to its internationalisation and doctoral education.