Prof. Ram Mahato is currently working as an Academic Chairperson and a Tenure Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy. He also served as a Courtesy Professor at the Eppley Institute for Cancer Research. He is also a member of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center and the Child Health Research Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics & Drug Delivery from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Britain in 1992. His research topics mainly include (i) micelle and nanoparticulate drug delivery, (ii) oligonucleotides, sirna, mirna and gene delivery (iii) synthesis of novel polymers, lipopeptides, lipopolymers and cationic lipids, (iv) construction of gene and shrna expression systems, and (v) design.