Stanley S. Davis, Ph.D.

S. S. (Bob) Davis is a professor at the University of Nottingham. He received a Ph.D. in colloid science (1967) from the University of London and was awarded a one year Fulbright Scholarship to undertake postdoctoral studies at the University of Kansas in the field of solution thermodynamics. He then joined the University of Aston in Birmingham as senior lecturer and head of the Pharmaceutics section; here, his research focused on drug delivery systems. After joining the faculty at Nottingham his research broadened to include drug targeting (colloidal carriers), transmucosal delivery, oral and parenteral systems for controlled release and product evaluation through gamma scintigraphy. He has published more than seven hundred papers and is the co-editor of seven books. He is also credited with founding two commercial pharmaceutical organizations, Danbiosyst (UK) Ltd (now part of West Pharmaceutical Services) and Pharmaceutical Profiles Limited.