Jingyuan Wen

Associate Professor Wen has over 25 years of research experience in pharmacology, nutraceuticals, pharmaceutical, drug discovery from natural products, novel drug formulation and delivery system design. She has received her Bachelor Medicine in 1986 and received her master’s degree in pharmacology in 1991 at the School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, China.  She was awarded a PhD in Pharmaceutical Science in 2003 from the School of Pharmacy, Otago University of New Zealand. She worked as a post-doc researcher for two and a half year at Neuren Pharmaceuticals Ltd, New Zealand. She was appointed as a lecturer/senior lecturer at the School of Pharmacy, the University of Auckland in 2005/2008.  In 2015, she was promoted to an Associate Professor recognizing both excellence in teaching and research.   She was also appointed as a research theme leader in drug delivery in 2013.  Under her supervision, 16 PhD students, 16 master students and 170 research dissertation and international exchange students have completed their degree and 6 PhD students are still ongoing in the area of pharmaceutical science. To date, she has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, patents, book chapters and conference abstracts in drug delivery, natural products and biological science.  Dr Wen is an abstracts reviewer of CRS (from 2007 to present) and a chair of Oral Drug Delivery Award Committee of CRS (2007 to 2012). Dr Wen was appointed as a treasurer of the committee Controlled Release Society (CRS) NZ local chapter from 2018 to 2019 and a committee member from 2010 to 2019.  She is also a member of Science Advisory Board, USA and an editor for several journal articles. She has established contacts with the international and local pharmaceutical industry and has been involved in joint projects and consultations work for national and international pharmaceutical and health care companies since 2005. In 2017, she was a funded invited speaker of CRS in Boston, USA which it has recognised her expertise in pharmaceutical science globally.

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