University Distinguished Professor
California Northstate University
Dr. Fakhrul Ahsan is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences at the California Northstate University College of Pharmacy (CNUCOP), Elk Grove, CA. Before joining CNUCOP, Dr. Ahsan has been a University Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy in Amarillo, Texas (TTUHSC SOP), wherein he served at the faculty for 19 years. He earned his pharmacy degree from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh and Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from Complutense University of Madrid. Dr. Ahsan’s research revolves around the development of novel formulations for the pulmonary delivery of therapeutic agents for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension (PAH). He has also been deploying microfluidic chips for understanding the PAH pathophysiology, developing diagnostic markers for PAH, and 3D printing for customized dosage forms for PAH patients. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Drug Targeting. Dr. Ahsan is an NIH-funded investigator: he has received three R15s, two R01 grants and an R42 grant. He also serves at various national-level review panels of NIH and DoD.