Pradeep Kumar (BPharm, MPharm, Ph.D.) is a Personal Professor of Pharmaceutics at Wits’ Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology and is affiliated with the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP) Research Unit. Prof. Kumar has an experience of over 15 years of academic teaching and research with pharmaceutics as the core subject, along with biomaterial design, tissue engineering, and nanomedicine. He holds a Y1 rating from the NRF. In 2021, A/Prof. Kumar has been included in the OECD Global Science Forum’s Scoping Group on the Research Precariat Project, has joined the Steering Committee of the ASSAf Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE), been appointed as the Research Portfolio Leader in the Gauteng DoH Spinal Cord Injury Work Group, and is co-leading the Scientific Excellence Working Group in the GYA. As an Expert Group Member, he has proudly contributed to the IAP Statement on Regenerative Medicine published in 2021. To date, he has supervised/co-supervised 14 Ph.D. students to graduation/completion and is currently busy with 12 doctoral projects. A/Prof. Kumar is an inventor of 32 granted patents from 08 patent families.
Pradeep Kumar (BPharm, MPharm, Ph.D.) is a Personal Professor of Pharmaceutics at Wits’ Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology and is affiliated with the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP) Research Unit. Prof. Kumar has an experience of over 15 years of academic teaching and research with pharmaceutics as the core subject, along with biomaterial design, tissue engineering, and nanomedicine. He holds a Y1 rating from the NRF. In 2021, A/Prof. Kumar has been included in the OECD Global Science Forum’s Scoping Group on the Research Precariat Project, has joined the Steering Committee of the ASSAf Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE), been appointed as the Research Portfolio Leader in the Gauteng DoH Spinal Cord Injury Work Group, and is co-leading the Scientific Excellence Working Group in the GYA. As an Expert Group Member, he has proudly contributed to the IAP Statement on Regenerative Medicine published in 2021. To date, he has supervised/co-supervised 14 Ph.D. students to graduation/completion and is currently busy with 12 doctoral projects. A/Prof. Kumar is an inventor of 32 granted patents from 08 patent families.