Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Biography

Prof. Dr. Kreuter studied pharmacy from 1968 to 1971 at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. He did his Ph.D. from 1972 to 1974 at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) under the supervision of Prof. P. Speiser. His doctoral thesis was honoured with the ETH-Medal. He received his habilitation (D.Sc.) in 1982 at the ETH. In 1977 he worked as a postdoc with Prof. T. Higuchi in Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A. and in 1979 with Prof. W. I. Higuchi in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. In 1983 he was a guest professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. 1984 he became associate professor in pharmaceutical technology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt. Simultaneously he was offered the position of a full professor in pharmaceutical technology in Vienna but remained in Frankfurt. In 1990 he became full professor in Frankfurt. Twice he was dean, 1988/89 and 1997/98. In addition, from 1987 to 1990 he was Governor of the Controlled Release Society. He is recipient of the APV-Price 1981, the PPD Award of the Japanese Society of Powder Technology 2009, the Takeru and Aja Higuchi Honorary Lecture Award of the Japanese Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences 2010, the Best Paper Award and the Most Cited Paper Award of the European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics in 2000 and in 2012, respectively, and the Jorge Heller Outstanding Paper Award of the Journal of Controlled Release 2009.

Research Interest

His research areas include drug-targeting, nanoparticles, drug transport across the blood-brain barrier using nanoparticles, microspheres, trans-dermal transport, polymeric drug delivery systems, adjuvants for vacccines, solid solutions, stability testing by microcalorymetry, and container materials. He has over 300 publications.