Atheer Awad is a Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at the University
of Hertfordshire (UK). She is also the Deputy Chair of the International
Pharmaceutical 3D Printing Initiative (Pharma3DPI). Dr. Awad received her
Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy at the Applied Science Private University (Jordan) in
2015. She then pursued an MSc (2015–2016) and a Ph.D. (2016–2021) in
Pharmaceutics at the UCL School of Pharmacy (UK), where her work focused on 3D
printing dosage forms and medicated devices for special patient groups.
Following that, she worked as a Research Fellow at the same institution as part
of the INTERREG 2 Seas program, where her project focused on site-specific drug
delivery using 3D printing. Her research harnesses her expertise in digital
health technologies, including 3D and 4D printing and site-specific drug
delivery towards application in personalized and transformative medicines. She
has over 30 publications and received multiple awards and honors, including
Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researcher (2022–2023), Forbes 30 Under 30 (2022),
Stanford’s Top 2% Scientists (2022–2023), International Pharmaceutical
Federation’s FIPWiSE Rising Star (2022), MIT Technology Reviews’s Innovator
Under 35 (2021) and Expertscape’s World Expert in Printing (2021-2023). Moreover,
her work received MDPI’s Journal of Clinical Medicine PhD Thesis and
Pharmaceutics Best Paper Awards (2021).
Atheer Awad is a Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at the University
of Hertfordshire (UK). She is also the Deputy Chair of the International
Pharmaceutical 3D Printing Initiative (Pharma3DPI). Dr. Awad received her
Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy at the Applied Science Private University (Jordan) in
2015. She then pursued an MSc (2015–2016) and a Ph.D. (2016–2021) in
Pharmaceutics at the UCL School of Pharmacy (UK), where her work focused on 3D
printing dosage forms and medicated devices for special patient groups.
Following that, she worked as a Research Fellow at the same institution as part
of the INTERREG 2 Seas program, where her project focused on site-specific drug
delivery using 3D printing. Her research harnesses her expertise in digital
health technologies, including 3D and 4D printing and site-specific drug
delivery towards application in personalized and transformative medicines. She
has over 30 publications and received multiple awards and honors, including
Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researcher (2022–2023), Forbes 30 Under 30 (2022),
Stanford’s Top 2% Scientists (2022–2023), International Pharmaceutical
Federation’s FIPWiSE Rising Star (2022), MIT Technology Reviews’s Innovator
Under 35 (2021) and Expertscape’s World Expert in Printing (2021-2023). Moreover,
her work received MDPI’s Journal of Clinical Medicine PhD Thesis and
Pharmaceutics Best Paper Awards (2021).