Ashim K Mitra

Ashim K. Mitra received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1983 from theUniversity of Kansas. He is currently a Curators' Professor of Pharmacy at the Universityof Missouri-Kansas City, as well as the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Research, Chairman of the Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Co-director of the VisionResearch Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. Forthe past three decades he has conducted extensive research in various drug delivery...See more

Ashim K. Mitra received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 1983 from theUniversity of Kansas. He is currently a Curators' Professor of Pharmacy at the Universityof Missouri-Kansas City, as well as the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Research, Chairman of the Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Co-director of the VisionResearch Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. Forthe past three decades he has conducted extensive research in various drug delivery technologies, including ocular drug delivery. He and his research personnel have publishedmore than 315 peer-reviewed research articles in high-impact international journals;published more than 550 abstracts at scientific meetings, including the annual conferencesof the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), the Society ofToxicology, and The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO);have given more than 115 presentations to a wide audience (including several universities, pharmaceutical companies, and scientific organizations); and have been issued nineU.S. patents. Between 2013 and 2014 alone he has edited five books and contributed tomore than 60 book chapters. Several of his articles have been recognized as being amongthe most downloaded articles in their respective journals. See less