1. Teaching Contributions:
   1. PharmD Teaching: Pharmaceutical dosage forms, Drug Delivery Systems, Manufacturing of Dosage forms and Compounding skills.
   2. Graduate Teaching: Advanced Delivery Systems, Applied Biopharmaceutics, and Dissertation advising, mentorship of Ph.D. students.
   3. Other Teaching Roles: Certificate programs.

Research Overview: Dr. Fassihi is a professor of biopharmaceutics and industrial pharmacy at Temple University, School of Pharmacy, where he has taught and done research in pharmaceutical sciences and drug delivery design since 1992. He has worked as an assistant professor at Isfahan University (1979-1982), a Postdoctoral fellow at Brighton University (1983), a Senior Scientist at Welsh School of Pharmacy (1984), and Senior Lecturer at Rhodes University in South Africa (1984-1988). He was Founder and Head of School of Pharmacy, and Professor and Chair of Department, at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (1988-1992), where he was awarded with gold medals by both the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Society of Cosmetic Chemists. In 1992 he joined Temple University with research emphasizes on design, development, evaluation (in-vitro and in-vivo), optimization and scale-up operations of oral dosage forms, oral-soluble films, orally disintegrating tablets, capsules, tablets including, enteric coated, osmotic pumps, tampered resistant systems, controlled and modified release drug delivery (CR), dispersed systems, topical products, gels, parenteral, subcutaneous and advanced delivery systems.

1. Research Interests: Solubilization techniques, Controlled release drug delivery, Drug absorption enhancement, Application of novel polymers in delivery system design, etc.
2. Key Publications: 1-Qiangnan Zhang, Thomas Durig , Benjamin Blass , Reza FassihiDevelopment of an amorphous based sustained release system for apremilast a selective phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) inhibitor,

  International Journal of Pharmaceutics; Volume 615, (5 March 2022) , 121516.

2- Q.. Zhang and Reza Fassihi, Release rate determination from in situ gel forming PLGA implant: a novel ‘shape-controlled basket in tube’ method. 

Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Pages 1-11, April-27, (2020).    https://doi.org/10.1111/jphp.13277

1. Safa Cyrus Fassihi, Rahmat Talukder, and Reza Fassihi In: Targeted Nanosystems for Therapeutic Applications: New Concepts, Dynamic Properties, Efficiency, and Toxicity; Chapter-13; Colon-Targeted Delivery Systems for Therapeutic Applications:Drug Release from Multiparticulate, Monolithic Matrix, and Capsule-Filled Delivery Systems; Pages 300-338, ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, (2019).  

1. Administrative & Service Roles:
   1. Leadership roles; Advisory role for multiple Ph.D. students’ projects. Membership of various organizations and committees.
   2. Institutional service (e.g., involvement in accreditation, strategic planning).
   3. Professional service: American Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences Fellow (AAPS Fellow), Profile evaluation, recommendations etc. candidates. Reviewers for multiple peer-reviewed journals.
2. Collaboration Interests & Opportunities: Ongoing collaboration with pharmaceutical industries and research organizations.
3. Professional Profiles:

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