School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
University of Geneva
Currently President of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and
Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmaceutics
Born in Zurich, where he studied pharmaceutical sciences at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich later at the University of Geneva, where he obtained a PhD in 1976. Prolonged stay at the Universities of Purdue and Stanford in the United States
1979 Research Associate at the University of Geneva .
1991 Professor in the some department.
Today Heads of a group of more than twenty five researchers.
Pioneers in the field of drug carriers and drug targeting
Acitif in the field of novel degradable biopolymers, long acting implants .
More recently he established working groups on protein delivery and gene therapy and on improvement of ocular therapy, especially intravitreal and subretinal medication.

1991-2001 Scientific Secretary of the "Controlled Release Society".
1998, Vice President of the International Association for Pharmaceutical Technology (APV) 1995 - today Editor-in-Chief European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics.

Recognitions:
2007 “Fellow” of SGPhW
2005 Pfizer – Capsugel Award
2004 CRS Best paper award
2003 Medal of the International Association of Pharmaceutical Technology
1999 "Prix Roger Barre" of the University of Montreal
1999 "Fellow" of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
1997 "Fellow" of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
1996 award for the supervision of the best thesis in pharmaceutical technology
1996 Phoenix Award
1995 APV Prize
1994 Merck Award

Scientific achievements:
He is the author of more than 333 peer reviewed articles,
12 books and 14 book chapters
125 abstracts
over 25 patents
33 doctorial theses
13 theses are currently under progress.