Professor Steve Rannard

Professor Steve Rannard is a co-director of the Centre of Excellence for Long-acting Therapeutics (CELT), the academic lead for Nanomedicine within the Materials Innovation Factory and Director of the Radio materials Laboratory within the Department of Chemistry.

His therapeutic research primarily focuses on advanced materials science onto unmet medical/clinical needs to target new patient benefits using scalable polymer syntheses, nanoparticle synthesis, solid drug nanoparticle formulation and nanoemulsion platforms. Steve spent 16 years in industry (Cookson, Courtaulds, Unilever) and has co-founded four start-up companies (IOTA Nanosolutions Ltd, Hydra Polymers Ltd, Tandem Nano Ltd, and Polymer Mimetics Ltd).

Steve was the first recipient of the RSC/Macro Group UK Young Researcher of the Year medal, sequential RSC Industrial Lectureships at Strathclyde and Sussex, a visiting lectureship at Sussex, visiting Professorship at UOL, and a Royal Society Industry Fellowship.