Professor
University of Minnesota
Raj Suryanarayanan (Sury) is Professor and William and Mildred Peters Endowed Chair in the College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota. He obtained his pharmacy degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India and Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. The overall goal of his research is to apply principles of pharmaceutical materials science to the design of robust pharmaceutical dosage forms with reproducible and predictable properties. His research group has developed low temperature powder X-ray diffractometric techniques to study frozen and freeze-dried pharmaceutical systems. He was a member of the USP Expert Committee (Excipients test methods). He is a fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) and is a past chair of the Teachers of Pharmaceutics Section of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Sury is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at the University of Minnesota. He the recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award and the David Grant Research Achievement Award in Physical Pharmacy, both from AAPS, the PhRMA Foundation Award and the Michael Pikal Distinguished Scholar Award from The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology and Education. He is an Associate Editor of Molecular Pharmaceutics.