Stanley Stewart Davis

Who is Stanley Stewart Davis?

Professor S.S Davis is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham.

Stanley Davis was born in Warwick, England. He obtained his Bachelors degree in Pharmacy from the School of Pharmacy at the University of London in 1964. He remained at the same University to study for a PhD in colloid science. In 1966 he was appointed Assistant Lecturer in Pharmaceutics and then to Lecturer in 1967. He was awarded his Doctor of Science degree in 1982. In 1968 he was awarded a one year Fulbright Scholarship to undertake postdoctoral studies with Professor Takeru Higuchi at the University of Kansas, USA in the field of solution thermodynamics.

In 1970 he moved to the University of Aston in Birmingham as Senior Lecturer and Head of the Pharmaceutics section. Here, he built up an active research group in drug delivery systems. Professor Davis took the position of Lord Trent Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham in 1975, where he ran a large research group, studying novel drug delivery systems. Topics of research have included drug targeting, transmucosal delivery, oral and parenteral systems for controlled release and product evaluation through gamma scintigraphy. He became an emeritus professor in 2003.