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Dr. Sreeja C. Nair joined Amrita School of Pharmacy in September 2012. She completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy from M.G.R Medical University and her Master’s Degree in Pharmaceutics from Amrita School of Pharmacy, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. She completed her Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in 2022. Her doctoral dissertation was titled “Delivery of Phenytoin Sodium Directly to the Brain Using Nano Lipid Carriers (NLCs) as a Treatment for Acute Epileptic Seizure”. She had worked as lecturer in Lisie College of Pharmacy (Lisie Medical and Educational Institutions, Ernakulam) from January 2007 to July 2010; as a Quality control Pharmacist in Livlong Nutraceuticals Ltd (a subsidiary of Arjuna Natural Extractsl Ltd), Kochi from November 2004 – December 2006 where she was fully accountable for the production & Quality Assurance of Livlong Herbal Products. She was a partner and competent person of M/s.Radiance Marketing, Pharmaceutical Superstockist of M/s.Wockhardt Ltd,M/s.Sandoz Ltd, M/s.Unichem Laboratories Ltd and M/s.Duraent Biologicals Ltd. ( April 2002 to October 2004) where she was responsible for managing and driving secondary sales to the distributors and also focused on monitoring and controlling credit limits of the distributors. She has more than 13 years of teaching and 10 years of research experience and has more than 72 International publications to her credit. Currently she is Asst. Professor of Dept. of Pharmaceutics at Amrita School of Pharmacy, an institution which was ranked 12 among the Pharmacy institutions in the country by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in India in 2021.

She received a publication merit award from Amrita Vishwavidyapeetham -”AMRITA INNOVATION & RESEARCH AWARDS (AIRA) in 2021”. Dr. Sreeja’s current research focuses on nano carrier based brain drug delivery, nose to brain delivery of nanotherapeutics, ocular and periodontal drug delivery, novel formulation approaches to reinvent drugs of potential therapeutic benefit etc.