Nashiru Billa

Professor Nashiru Billa is a professor of drug delivery with the College of Pharmacy, Qatar University. He obtained his BPharm Degree from the University of Punjab in 1993. After a brief attachment with the Pharmaceutical Industry, he pursued a PhD in Pharmaceutics, completing in 2000 at the University of Science Malaysia. In 2001, he joined the International Medical University as a Lecturer in Pharmaceutics and drug delivery. At the same university, he was appointed Chief Scientist of a Bioequivalence Research Laboratory (Equilab®), where he oversaw the generation of analytical protocols for the analysis of drugs in plasma for use in bioequivalence studies. He has served as a consultant to a Pharmaceutical Company and participated in more than 30 bioequivalence studies on generic pharmaceuticals. He was involved in the design of the International Medical University Pharmacy curriculum and played a leading role in the planning of the pharmaceutics courses at that university. In 2005 he joined the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus as Assistant Professor. In 2007 he was promoted to Associate Professor and in 2015 to full Professor. During the 15 year stay at the Nottingham University, he was the lead in the delivery of several drug delivery modules and held several administrative positions, including Associate Dean for Research & Knowledge Exchange and Deputy Head of School. He serves as an External Examiner to several Pharmacy Educational Curricula.