Ajay K. Banga

Professor and Department Chairman
Endowed Chair in Transdermal Delivery Systems
Center for Drug Delivery and Research
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Pharmacy, Mercer University, Atlanta, GA 30341, U.S.A

Dr. Ajay K. Banga is a Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the College of Pharmacy, Mercer University (Atlanta, GA). He serves as Department Chair and as Endowed Chair in transdermal delivery systems. He has served as a consultant to over 25 companies in the area of his research expertise, which is skin delivery systems. Such systems include traditional transdermal patches, dermatologicals, and non-traditional delivery approaches, such as microneedles and iontophoresis, for the delivery of small conventional drugs, macromolecules, and cosmetic actives. Dr. Banga has a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from Rutgers University (NJ, USA). He has mentored 45 Ph.D. students as their major advisor, and his laboratory has been funded by over 100 grants/contracts from leading pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies, and by federal funds. Dr. Banga has served on the Editorial Board of 10 journals and has served as the Editor-in-Chief for a drug delivery journal. He has written three books in the areas of proteins and transdermal delivery, and published 200 manuscripts, 13 book chapters, and 320 conference abstracts. He has given over 90 invited lectures and served on over 80 thesis/dissertation advisory committees and as a referee for over 40 journals. He is a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS).