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SUMMARYOFMYRELEVANTRESEARCHAREAS:Brief summary of your research areas, in English just a short paragraph please Micro-injection moulding, Pharmaceutical Compounding Oriented Polymers, Solid Phase orientation processing, Polymer Rheology, Pulmonary and Transdermal Drug delivery systems and Particle Engineering. Brief summary of your research areas, in Chinese we will translate this for non-Chinese speaking UKparticipantsPrimaryResearchinterests:Afullerdescriptionofyourmainresearchareas.Dr Karthik Nair graduated from Bharathi Vidyapeeth College of Pharmacy (Kolhapur, India) with a Bachelor Degree in Pharmacy (2006) he gained PGDip in pharmacology from Nottingham Trent University. He has also gained MSc in drug delivery from Aston University, Birmingham. In 2014 he completed his PhD in Pharmaceutical Engineering from Polymer IRC University of Bradford and since then he is working as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Medical Devices under Prof Phil Coates and Dr Ben Whiteside.

Main research projects include:

Healthcare: bioresorbable shape memory materials for bone and soft tissue fixation, novel extrusion manufacturing of drugs, drug delivery devices, microneedles and drug eluting implants.

Basic science: Molecular architecture effects on processing, ultra-high strain rate rheometry, AFM of polymers, biomedical materials, tissue and nanocomposites.

Novel & efficient processing: Micro-injection moulding, Ultra sound moulding solid phase orientation processing – die drawing, extrusion quality control and additives compounding

Topicsinwhichyouwouldliketodevelopcollaborativeresearch:Please indicate here research areas forwhich youwould like to find partners to undertake jointresearch.

1. Drugelutingdevices2. Extrusion3. Microneedles4. Micro-injectionmoulding5. Ultrasoundmoulding6. Softtissuefixation7. Diedrawing/solidphaseorientation.

Name:DrKarthikNair Position:PostdoctoralResearcher Institute/division:SchoolofEngineeringUniversityofBradford Email:k.j.nair2@bradford.ac.uk Tel:(00)441274233648

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Relevantexistingcollaborations(academic/clinical/commercial)insideoroutsideChina.IncludehereanyrelevantcollaborationsyouhaveUK:UniversityofLoughborough,NottinghamUniversityandCardiffUniversityIndia:IndianInstituteofScienceBangaloreandInstituteofChemicalTechnologyMumbai.China:InstituteofAppliedChemistryCASChangchunIndustry:SABICNetherlands.Relevantgraphics,figures,pictures:Usethisareatoshowpicturesorscientificfigureswhichillustrateyourresearch

Publicationsandotheroutputsrelevanttoyourinterestinthisprogramme(upto5)PleasegivereferencestoyourkeyrecentresearchpublicationsJadhav N and Nair K; (2009).Glass transition temperature: Basics and application in pharmaceutical sector. Asian Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2(3).p.85-89. Coates P, Whiteside B, Kelly A and Nair K, High strain rate rheometry of polymer melts and nano-composites, The 29th International Conference of The Polymer Processing Society (PPS-29) 2013. Nair K, Grant C, Whiteside B, Patel R, Norris K & Paradkar A, Preformulation studies of polymers for microneedle design; Microneedle 2012, Cork, Ireland. Nair K, Grant C, Whiteside B, Bobe C, Patel R, Norris K & Paradkar A, Investigation of plasma treatment on polymeric micro-injection moulded microneedle for protein drug delivery, Pharmaceutics 2015, 7(4), 471-485