Emeritus Professor
University of Athens, Greece
Panos Macheras is Emeritus Professor (after obligatory retirement September 2014) of the Department of Pharmacy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is the founder (1991) of the Laboratory of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics at the University of Athens. In 2016, he established the PharmaInformatics Unit of the Research and Innovation Center ATHENA; he is currently head of the Unit. He is Adjunct Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, USA, since 1/2/2018.
He received his B. Pharm. (1970) and Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (1977) from the University of Athens, Greece. He also received a Ph.D. degree (1981) in Biopharmaceutics-Pharmacokinetics from King's College, University of London, U.K. He was Visiting Associate Professor at the College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan (Sabbatical 1988). He has published more than 180 journal articles (with more than 6850 citations, h=40 in google) and seven books in the field of Biopharmaceutics-Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics. His research interests include experimental, theoretical and computational (modeling and simulation) studies on drug dissolution, release, gastrointestinal absorption, protein binding, drug-cyclodextrins interaction, bioequivalence, biopharmaceutic classification of drugs, pharmacokinetics, fractal and fractional kinetics, applications of fractal concepts in biopharmaceutical systems and nonlinear dynamics. A special issue of the Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics, published in April 2019 as a tribute to his contributions to science, contains several aspects of his work (https://link.springer.com/journal/10928/46/2).
He serves on the Editorial Board of the journals Pharmaceutical Research, International Journal of Pharmaceutics and European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He has received numerous international and Greek honors and awards.