Professor John Mitchell
John Mitchell MSc PhDEmeritus Professor Room: Nelson 204 |
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Profile
Emeritus Professor and Pharmaceutical Sciences Cluster Leader in the School of Science. Professor Mitchell is an internationally recognised expert in pre-formulation and formulation science. He has published over 130 refereed papers in aspects of drug delivery, synthesis and analysis of novel drug carrying polymers, drug transport, drug formulation and the chemical stability of drug substances using spectroscopy and calorimetry as major tools.
Professor Mitchell has over 1590 citations with an average citation of 12.2 per paper and an h index of 23. Please see: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-3754-2008.
Professor Mitchell has excellent industry links having had over 25 collaborative post-doctoral fellows with Pfizer UK and PhD students supported by both GSK and Pfizer. The interdisciplinary nature of his work, based in both physical organic chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry, is best expressed in a range of publications in journals ranging from Thermochimica Acta to International Journal of Pharmaceutics and interdisciplinary invited lectures including: ‘Pharmaceutical Nanomaterials: The preparation of solid core drug delivery systems’ to the Delivery Technologies for Biotherapeutics Section at the recent APS PharmSci 2010.
Current and previous posts
1999 – Present Professor of Biological Chemistry University of Greenwich
1991 – 1999 Senior Lecturer in Bio-organic Chemistry University of Kent
1987 – 1991 Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich
1983 – 1987 Teaching Fellow, University of London
Qualifications
1983 – PhD, Physical Organic Chemistry, Duke University, USA
1979 – MSc, Organic Chemistry, Southern Illinois University, USA
1977 – BA Chemistry, Southern Illinois University, USA