APS Emerging Technologies Focus Group

My name is Dimitrios Lamprou (Ph.D. MBA) and I am the first Chair (and founder) of the Emerging Technologies Focus Group, which established in March 2021, with the aim to bring together scientists interested in the rapidly growing field of Emerging Technologies for Drug Delivery and Medical Implants, and bridging the gap between industry and academia in this exciting and hot field. From, the beginning of my career, and before that as a student, I always had a strong interested in Emerging Technologies and Medical Implants, and finally now with this APS Focus Group, we all have a “home” to bring all these Emerging Technologies under one roof, support each other, share experiences, and together work towards the development of drug delivery systems and medical devices that were not able to be produced a few years ago. I am currently a Reader in Pharmaceutical Engineering and Programme Director at MSc Industrial Pharmaceutics at the School of Pharmacy in Queen's University Belfast (U

  A career trying to help 'Emerging Technologies' be accepted   Whilst I still feel as excited as ever by the potential of the latest technologies and ideas to move research forward, I can reflect on a long career where I have seen many technologies emerge, some to blossom, some to disappear and then perhaps come back again.     For me personally I was so lucky to have had a PhD in Physics at Imperial College in the late 80's building and using the revolutionary Scanning Tunelling Microscope invented in 1981 at IBM to visualise and manipulate atoms and molecules. This tool changed the way we thought about ultra-resolution microscopy and provided a huge impetus for other technologies such as electron microscopy to improve. For me this led to my first research post in the School of Pharmacy, Nottingham University to apply STMs and the sister technique Atomic Force Microscopy in biomolecular and pharmaceutical analysis. Working in a multidisciplinary area such as Pharm