Zahra Rattray

Senior Lecturer at Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Speaker

Zahra Rattray is Associate Professor in Translational Pharmaceutics at the University of Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences. She is a registered pharmacist, obtaining her MPharm (2008) and PhD in drug delivery (2013) from the University of Manchester School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Zahra was a senior scientist at AstraZeneca (2014-2016) contributing to the early development and parenterals development portfolio, and later completed postdoctoral training at the Yale School of Medicine (2016-2018). She is lead for the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products focus group, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland. She was included in the International Federation of Pharmacy Woman in Science and Education 2022 inaugural (FIPWISE) rising star list. Zahra is director of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Multiscale Metrology Suite national facility for nanomaterials analysis and Academic in Residence at the United Kingdom Laboratory of the Government Chemist National Measurement Laboratory.