Professor
University of Bath, United Kingdom
Richard Guy is Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Bath. His research has focussed on skin barrier function characterisation, topical and transdermal formulation development and optimisation, non-invasive biosensing and the prediction and assessment of skin penetration and topical bioavailability. He has published >400 peer-reviewed articles and is co-inventor of 20 patents. Professor Guy’s academic background is in applied physical chemistry, and he received the degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Oxford in 2016. In 2018, he was a National Expert on secondment at the European Medicines Agency in the area of regulatory science and, since 2013, research in his laboratory has been funded continuously by grants from the US FDA. Professor Guy co-founded Transdermal Diagnostics, Ltd., a “spin-out” from the University of Bath, in 2022 that is actively developing a non-invasive, needle-free glucose monitoring device.