Meet the SweDeliver Alumni
SweDeliver's PhD students and postdocs form an international team, conducting high-quality research, while laying the foundation for future leading positions in life science. Several of our junior researchers have already completed their work in SweDeliver and started the next phase of their careers. Meet our Alumni:
Yassir Al-Tikriti • Parenteral drug delivery
Yassir Al-Tikriti conducted his PhD project Amphiphilic drugs in microgels in Work package Parenteral drug delivery. Yassir's work aimed to improve our fundamental understanding of the drug-aggregation inside microgels and to derive release models that contribute to the development of novel drug release systems.
Thesis Microgels as drug delivery vehicles: loading and release of amphiphilic drugs (Published 17 May 2022, Dissertation defense 14 June 2022)
Researcher bio Yassir Al-Tikriti is a pharmacist with a B.Sc. degree in pharmacy from Baghdad University. In 2012, Yassir earned a Master's degree in pharmaceutical science from Uppsala University, with the main field of the study being in drug discovery and development.
Current position Pharmaceutical Development & Research Manager at Calliditas Therapeutics AB.
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Staffan Berg, Oral drug delivery
Staffan Berg conducted his PhD project Investigation of the interplay between permeation enhancers, GI physiology and macromolecular drugs to facilitate design of oral dosage forms in Work package Oral drug delivery. In his work, Staffan designed formulations to reduce the large intra- and individual variability often observed when delivering biologics via the oral route, which can in turn be an obstacle to oral delivery of macromolecules using permeation enhancers.
Thesis Oral delivery of macromolecules formulated with permeation enhancers (Published 29 Augusty 2022, Dissertation defense 30 September 2022).
Researcher bio Staffan Berg studied pharmacy first at Åbo Akademi (BSc) and later at University of Helsinki (MSc). His Master’s Thesis was on a targeted anticancer drug delivery system performed at the University of Utah. After graduation Staffan Berg joined a rotational trainee program at AstraZeneca where he did placements in biopharmaceutics, project management, and early phase formulation. Staffan Berg worked as a senior scientist in biopharmaceutics at AstraZeneca when joining the Drug Delivery group at Uppsala University.
Current position Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca.
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Ann-Christin Jacobsen, Oral drug delivery
Ann-Christin Jacobsen was recruited as a postdoc to Work package Oral drug delivery. Ann-Christin worked in the project Local intestinal generation of transient permeability enhancers by digestion of lipid formulations aiming to develop and evaluate lipid-based formulations for oral delivery of biologics such as peptides and proteins.
Selected publication Intrinsic lipolysis rate for systematic design of lipid-based formulations (Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2022)
Researcher bio Ann-Christin Jacobsen holds a PhD degree from the University of Southern Denmark (2020). The focus of her PhD project was developing novel tools to evaluate the oral performance of enabling formulations of poorly soluble drugs with emphasis on combined dissolution/permeation approaches. She is a pharmacist by training and received the master’s degree from the University of Southern Denmark in 2017. During her studies, she stayed four months at AbbVie Germany for an industrial internship.
Current position Postdoc at University of Southern Denmark, Editorial assistant at European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Sohan Sarangi, Pulmonary drug delivery
Sohan Sarangi conducted his PhD project Particle Dynamics and Multiscale Modelling of Adhesive Mixtures for Inhaled Medicines in Work package Pulmonary drug delivery. In his work, Sohan aimed to – via studying the interactions between the drug and carrier particles and its aggregates in an adhesive mixture for inhalation using a particle based modelling approach – contribute new knowledge on adhesive mixtures during general handling and transportation.
Thesis Understanding Adhesive Mixtures for Inhalation: Particle Dynamics Modelling and Segregation Experiments (Published 29 September 2022, Dissertation defense 21 October 2022)
Researcher bio Sohan Sarangi completed his BS-MS Dual Degree, majoring in Physics from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune. In his thesis, he worked on computational fluid dynamics method development and application. He has also worked on computational biomechanics of decubitus ulcers.