Dr. Shery Jacob is a Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy at Gulf Medical University. He received his Bachelor of Pharmacy from Mangalore University, India, in 1992. He earned his Master’s degree in Pharmaceutics from the Birla Institute of Technology, India, in 1997. He earned his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, in 2006. He obtained a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Bioengineering from Clemson University, South Carolina, USA, in 2008. His research interests include pharmaceutical pre-formulation and material characterization, solubility enhancement technologies, and nanotechnology in drug delivery.