Dr. Abdul Ahad presently works as an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has published various high-quality research/review articles in several peer-reviewed journals of international repute and holds a patent on a novel formulation for an antihypertensive agent. His current research interests lie in lipid-based nano-sized formulation developments for oral/dermal/transdermal drug delivery. He is an editorial board member of several journals, such as Current Drug Delivery, Biomed Research International, Scientific Reports, Pharmaceutics (Topic Editor), Recent Patents in Drug Delivery & Formulation, and Current Drug Discovery Technologies.