Kishor M. Wasan
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Pharmacologist, pharmacist and professor
Academic background
Education
Doctoral advisorGabriel Lopez Berenstein
Academic work
Main interestsLipid-based drug delivery and the interaction between lipoprotein and pharmaceuticals

Kishor M. Wasan is a Canadian pharmacologist, pharmacist and professor. He was the dean of the University of Saskatchewan's College of Pharmacy and Nutrition from 2014 to 2019 and associate dean of research and graduate studies at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC) from 2011 to 2014. Previously at UBC, he was chair of pharmaceutics and national director of the Canadian Summer Student Research Program after first joining the faculty in 1995. Wasan's research focuses on lipid-based drug delivery and the interaction between lipoprotein and pharmaceuticals. He has published more than 550 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts. He is a founding member and co-director of UBC's Neglected Global Diseases Initiative.

Early life and family

Kishor M. Wasan's parents were both academics. His mother was a physician and his father, Madanlal T. Wasan (1930–2005), was a professor at Queen's University in Ontario.[1][2] He showed interest in science from a young age and would "hang out in their labs asking questions about why and how things happened".[1]

Education and career

Wasan graduated with a Bachelor of Science in pharmacy from University of Texas at Austin in 1985.[3] He then served as a decentralized hospital pharmacist for several years before beginning work on his doctorate under the tutelage of Gabriel Lopez Berenstein.[1] In 1993, Wasan earned his Ph.D. in cellular and molecular pharmacology at the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston.[3] He then completed a one-year post-doctoral fellowship on lipoprotein biochemistry at the Cleveland Clinic.[3][4]

Wasan joined the faculty of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 1995 and earned tenure as an associate professor in 2000.[3][4] Wasan was also chair of pharmaceutics and, in 2001, created the Canadian Summer Student Research Program for undergraduate pharmacy students at UBC. He served as national director of the program which was funded by the Merck Company Foundation. He was associate editor of the Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences and served on the editorial board of several other journals.[3]

In 2009, he was named the CIHR/iCo Therapeutics Research Chair in Drug Delivery for Neglected Global Diseases, a joint project by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and iCo Therapeutics. He is a founding member of UBC's Neglected Global Diseases Initiative,[5] a program he co-directs with Richard Lester.[6]

In September 2011, Wasan succeeded Helen Burt as associate dean of research and graduate studies at UBC's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He was appointed dean of the University of Saskatchewan's College of Pharmacy and Nutrition in 2014.[1] He served in the position until June 2019, when he was succeeded by Jane Alcorn.[7][8]

Awards, honours, and other memberships

Wasan is a member of the Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (CSPS) and served as treasurer of the society in 2001–2002. He was later an at-large member of the CSPS board of directors in 2006–2010 and 2012–2014.[9] In 2011, he was recognized with the CSPS Leadership Award for "outstanding contributions to Pharmaceutical Sciences in Canada". Wasan has been a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences since 2010.[10]

Selected bibliography

Wasan's research focuses on neglected diseases,[5] lipid-based drug delivery and the interaction between lipoprotein and pharmaceuticals.[11] He has published more than 550 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts.[12] A selection of his written work is listed below:

Journal articles

Book chapters

Books edited

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Formulating the Future". The Medicine Maker. November 27, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Professor Madanlal T. Wasan Memorial Prize in Urologic Sciences". Vancouver Prostate Centre. May 21, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "6th Annual Symposium on Pharmaceutical Sciences" (PDF). Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences. 6 (2): 12. May 2003.
  4. 1 2 "Kishor Wasan Named Associate Dean of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences" (PDF). Neglected Global Diseases Initiative. University of British Columbia. September 2011.
  5. 1 2 New Frontiers in Pharmaceutical Sciences. 13th Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (CSPS) Annual Meeting. June 2010. p. 65. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.688.3125.
  6. ↑ "Leadership and Advisory Board". Neglected Global Diseases Initiative. University of British Columbia. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  7. ↑ "USask names new dean in College of Pharmacy and Nutrition". Education News Canada. July 4, 2019. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  8. ↑ Kobitz, Kieran (September 13, 2019). "Jane Alcorn accepts new challenge in USask Pharmacy and Nutrition". College of Pharmacy and Nutrition. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Board of Directorssince Inception 1997" (PDF). Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  10. ↑ "CAHS Fellows Directory". Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  11. ↑ "Dr. Kishor Wasan". University of Saskatchewan. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
  12. ↑ Wasan, Kishor M.; Badea, Ildiko (2019). "About the Special Issue Editors" (PDF). Pharmaceutics. 11 (Drug Delivery Technology Development in Canada): 8. ISBN 978-3-03928-005-6.
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