Dr Justin Tian

Lecturer in Pharmaceutics

Queens University Belfast

Biography

Dr. Tian, BEng (Honour), MSc, PhD, is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Pharmaceutical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast and a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow (2019/20). He has completed his bachelor’s in Macromolecular Materials and Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, MSc in Process Engineering, and PhD in Pharmaceutics. 

Dr Tian is leading a global partnership and collaboration to tackle essential antifungal nanomedicine shortages through advanced process engineering. He has secured external funding of >£900,000 as Principal Investigator and >£500,000 as Co-Investigator from highly competitive sources, i.e., UKRI, leading charities, and Innovate UK (2023). The Medical Research Council (MRC) has awarded the current collaborative project to develop transformational advanced manufacturing technology for sustainable production and supply of antifungal nanomedicines (EnLAmB project, 2023-2025, PI, MR/X014010/1).