Biography

Daan Crommelin is presently scientific director of the Dutch Top Institute Pharma in Leiden, and is also Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutics at Utrecht University. He is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Utah. He is co-founder and Chair of the scientific advisory board of OctoPlus, a Leiden based company specialized in the development of pharmaceutical product formulations and advanced drug delivery systems. He publishes extensively and is on the editorial board of 10 peer-reviewed journals in the field of pharmaceutical sciences.
Professor Crommelin presently chairs the Board of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) and was Chair of the organizing committee of the Pharmaceutical Sciences World Conference 2007 in Amsterdam, as well as being President Elect of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS).