Farid A. Dorkoosh received his Pharm.D. from Tehran Azad University in Iran and then was awarded his Ph.D. in pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics from Leiden University in the Netherlands in 2002. He followed an international training on intellectual property and management of innovation at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2005. He also received his diploma in management from Chartered Management Institute of London, United Kingdom, in 2009. He is currently a professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He serves in the pharmaceutics group and medical biomaterial research center in the Faculty of Pharmacy. His solid scientific and technical knowledge with respect to developing new business activities is well recognized internationally; he focuses on enhancing high-throughput research activities for developing novel drug delivery systems. He has more than 90 research articles and ten patents and patent applications. His current research areas are: novel drug delivery systems, gene and peptide and protein delivery, biopolymers and biomaterial application in drug delivery and nanotechnology.

- Novel Drug Delivery Systems - Nanotechnology - Peptide and gene delivery