Hend Mohamed Abdel-Bar is Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics and Industrial Pharmacy in the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sadat city. In 2007, she joined the National Organization of Drug control and research, the agency responsible for drug quality control in Egypt, as a quality-control specialist until 2014, then became a researcher of pharmaceutics for 2 years. Since 2016, she has been a transfer at the University of Sadat city. Her current research interests are controlled release systems, nanotechnology, experimental design, formulation optimization, lipid-based systems, nanocomposites, topical drug delivery, ocular delivery systems, intra-nasal drug delivery systems, gene delivery, and brain and tumour targeting. Hend gained Researcher Links Travel Grants under the Newton-Mosharafa fund as well as Schlumberger Foundation- Faculty for the Future fellowship in King’s College of London.