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Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy

professor vitaliy khutoryanskiy portrait
  • Chair of Chemistry and Pharmacy building Joint Technicians and Academics Group (JTAG)
  • Director of Physicochemical, Ex Vivo and Invertebrate Tests and Analysis Centre (PEVITAC, www.pevitac.co.uk)
  • Manager for laboratories 169, LG3 and LG59 in Chemistry and Pharmacy building

Areas of interest

  • Polymers for pharmaceutical applications
  • Mucoadhesive drug delivery systems
  • Transmucosal drug delivery (ocular, nasal, oral, intravesical, rectal and vaginal)
  • Water-soluble and amphiphilic polymers
  • Hydrogels and biomaterials
  • Functionalised nanoparticles (polymers, silica, gold)
  • Stimuli-responsive polymers
  • Invertebrate in vivo models in evaluation of toxicity and biological activities of chemicals and formulations (planaria, slugs, and wax moth)

Postgraduate supervision

  • Shiva Vanukuru
  • Myrale Habel
  • Yuehuai Xiong
  • Zainab Al-Jashaami
  • Triona Kirabo
  • Farah Mahmoud Kasem Mousli 
  • Sirirat Sriraksa 

Academic qualifications

  • BSc (Chemistry), Kazakhstan
  • MSc (Polymer chemistry), Kazakhstan
  • PhD (Polymer chemistry), Kazakhstan

Awards and honours

  • McBain medal, Society of Chemical Industry and Royal Society of Chemistry (2012)
  • Sentinel of Science Award as one of the top 10 % reviewers in chemistry, Publons (2016)
  • PhD Supervisor of the Year Award, FindAUniversity (2020)
  • Innovative Science Award, The Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2022)

Professional bodies/affiliations

  • Fellow of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (FAPS)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Member of the Society of Chemical Industry
  • Member of the United Kingdom Society for Biomaterials

Publications

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