Professor                                                                               
Laboratory of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics                                
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Geneva-Lausanne (EPGL)          
University of Geneva                                                           
Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30                                                  
CH-1211 Geneva 4                                                             
Switzerland                                                                               

Phone: +41 22 379 6945                                                             
Fax: +41 22 379 6567                                                             
gerrit.borchard@pharm.unige.ch
http://www.unige.ch/sciences/pharm/fagal/index.html

Gerrit Borchard is a licensed pharmacist and obtained his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical technology from the University of Frankfurt (Germany). After holding several academic posts, including a lecturer position at Saarland University (Germany) and an Associate Professorship at Leiden University (The Netherlands), he joined Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (USA) as Vice President Research. In 2005, he was appointed Full Professor of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), and Scientific Director of the Centre Pharmapeptides in Archamps (France), an international center for biopharmaceutical research and training. Due to these wanderings, he is fluent in four languages.

His main areas of interest are macromolecular drug formulation and delivery, molecular biopharmaceutics and mucosal vaccination, allowing him to publish more than 70 papers and book chapters. He has served as Scientific Advisor for the International Controlled Release Society (CRS), as head of the academic section of the International Association of Pharmaceutical Technology (APV), and Scientific Secretary for the European Association for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (EAPB). Prof. Borchard is editor of the European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, and serves on the editorial boards of three scientific journals. In 2006 he was appointed member of the WHO Steering Committee on Vaccine Delivery Systems.