Prof. Dr. Martin Kuentz,

 Lecturer in Pharma Technology

Research

Memberships of organisations, commissions and review bodies

Prof. Kuentz is a member of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Pharmazeutischen Verfahrenstechnik” (APV), the Swiss Society of Industrial Pharmacists (GSIA), and of Catedra Iberoamericana-Suiza de Desarrollo de Medicamentos (CISDEM).

Awards

• 2014 IPEC Foundation Best Manuscript of the Year Award, AAPS, San Diego, USA 2014
• Price for the best poster at the 3rd 3. GALENUS WORKSHOP IN GREIFSWALD, Germany 2014
• Best poster award in the category of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Swiss Pharma Science Day (Bern, Switzerland) in the years 2012, 2014, and 2015

Patents

The various patents can be inferred from the contribution list in different databases or for example via Google Scholar.

Prof. Dr. Martin Kuentz has been lecturing since 2007 at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, where he leads a research group on oral formulations of poorly soluble drugs with a special emphasis on advanced analytics and computational modeling. Prior to his academic assignment, Dr. Kuentz spent nearly seven years at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. in pharmaceutical research and development. The preceding PhD thesis was about the physics of pharmaceutical compaction at the University of Basel, where he studied pharmacy with additional semesters in physical chemistry. Over the years, Prof. Kuentz has authored more than 200 articles and given numerous talks at international conferences. He is a work package leader in the EU projects PEARRL and InPharma, and Prof. Kuentz serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and “Die Pharmazie”.

Social Media

• Researchgate
• LinkedIn
• Google Scholar
• ORCID
  

Martin Kuentz teaches at the School of Life Sciences on the bachelor level a course on industrial processes in the life sciences. This first semester course is mainly about the processes in drug discovery, development, scale-up, and manufacturing of active compounds.

Another course on the bachelor level is about the chemistry and pharmaceutical profiling of active compounds.  Martin Kuentz also teaches on special topics in quality management and registration and he takes part in a master module where he lectures on poorly water soluble drugs and on how these compounds can be formulated orally.

Prof. Kuentz has attended several courses in University didactics and gained a certificate from the University of Basel (2008), which is part of the habilitation program.

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