Prof. Vitaly Khutoryanskiy

Professor of Formulation Science and Director of PEVITAC

University of Reading

Biography

Prof Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy has been Professor of Formulation Science since 2014, having previously been Associate Professor in Pharmaceutical Materials (2010-2014) and Lecturer in Pharmaceutics (2005-2010) at Reading School of Pharmacy, University of Reading (UK). He is also a Royal Society Industry Fellow since March 2023. He has researched broadly in the area of new biomaterials for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications, with a particular emphasis on drug delivery, mucoadhesive materials, hydrogels, nanomaterials and stimuli-responsive polymers. He was the recipient of the 2012 McBain Medal from the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) for his imaginative use of colloid, polymer and interface science in the development of novel biomedical materials; he also received PhD Supervisor of the Year Postgrad Award (2020) from FindAPhD and Innovative Science Award from the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2022). Prof Khutoryanskiy has published over 200 original research articles, reviews, and book chapters, accruing over 13000 citations with an h-index of 55 (Google Scholar). He also edited 5 books and filed 3 patent applications. He serves as a member of EPSRC peer-review college (UK) and sits on editorial boards for several journals (European Polymer Journal, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutics, Polymers, and Gels).