Violet Hill looking forward to welcoming Professor David Jones to GCSE Awards Ceremony
Staff and pupils at St Colman's College are sincerely looking forward to welcoming Professor David Jones to Violet Hill for our upcoming GCSE Awards Ceremony. Professor will be Guest of Honour at the event.David Jones is Professor of Biomaterial Science at Queens University Belfast and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students. He gained a BSc (1st class honours) in Pharmacy (1985), a PhD in Pharmaceutics (1988) and, in 2006, a DSc., all from Queens University of Belfast. More recently (2014) he gained a BA (1st class honours) in Mathematics and Statistics from the Open University. He registered with the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland in 1989. From 1989-1992 he was a lecturer in Pharmaceutics at the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand) and from 1992-1994 he held the position of Head of Formulations at Norbrook Industries Limited (NI). In 1994 he was appointed to a lectureship at the School of Pharmacy, QUB and was promoted to a Senior Lectureship in 1997. Since 1999 he holds a personal Chair (in Biomaterial Sciences) at the School of Pharmacy, Queens University of Belfast. His research concerns the characterisation, formulation and engineering of pharmaceutical materials/dosage forms and biomedical devices. He is the author of three textbooks, 10 patents and over 400 research papers/communications and has been awarded the Lilly prize for pharmaceutical research, the British Pharmaceutical Conference Science Award and an Eminent Fellowship from the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is currently a Director and Co-Founder of a drug delivery company, Re-Vana Therapeutics, a spin-out company from Queens University Belfast that is focused on the treatment of eye diseases. Professor Jones is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Statistician and a Chartered Chemist and is an elected Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Member of the Institution of Engineers in Ireland. He is the Editor of the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology and is a previous holder of a prestigious Royal Society Industrial Fellowship.