Md Nurunnabi is an assistant professor of Pharmaceutics with joint affiliation with Biomedical Engineering, Environmental Science & Engineering at UT El Paso. His laboratory focuses on biomaterials and drug delivery research. Prior to starting his independent position, he was a Postdoctoral fellow Wyss Institute of Harvard University. He completed MS and PhD in Bioengineering from Korea National University of Transportation, and BS in Pharmacy from University of Development Alternative and a short Postdoctoral training at Chungnam National University in Korea before moving to USA in 2016. He has conducted his PhD thesis jointly at Korea National University and University of Utah. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed research articles, 8 book chapters, edited 2 books for Elsevier. He is an inventor of 10 patents that resulted several startups in South Korea and USA. His research publications have been cited about 2000 times with an H-index of 23. Currently he is directing a lab of 14 members consist of research scientists, doctoral candidates and undergraduate students and his research projects are sponsored by state, federal, and foundations. For details- www.utep.edu/NurunnabiLab