Dr Ho Wan (Howard) Chan is a Maplethorpe Research and Teaching Fellow at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King’s College London. He obtained his BPharm (with First Class Honours) and PhD (under the supervision of Prof. Aviva Chow) degrees from the University of Hong Kong and is a registered pharmacist in Hong Kong. He has published >10 journal articles in the field of respiratory drug delivery and nanomedicine, and has received several accolades, including the DDL Career Development Grant, the HKU Research Postgraduate Student Innovation Award, and the prestigious Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship for Research Postgraduate Students (awarded annually to only three research postgraduate students in Hong Kong).
Howard’s research interests include developing inhalable nanomedicines to improve therapeutic outcomes for patients with respiratory diseases and establishing novel biorelevant in vitro models for evaluating inhalable drug products. His current Fellowship research project, sponsored by Dr Sally Yunsun Kim, aims to investigate the potential therapeutic role of platelet-derived extracellular vesicles in lung tissue repair and to establish air-liquid interface precision-cut lung slice cultures as an ex vivo model to assess the efficacy and safety of inhalable drug formulations.
