The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences announces the appointment of Kishor Wasan to the position of Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies effective Sept. 1, 2011. Wasan will be taking over for Helen Burt, who will be assuming the role of UBC Associate Vice President, Research and International.
Wasan has been an Investigator with the Centre for Drug Research and Development since 2006 and was named the CIHR University-Industry Research Chair from December 1, 2003 to November 30, 2008, and again from April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2013. Since September 2005, he has held the title of Affiliated Investigator, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and has been an affiliated faculty member with the Centre for Higher Order Structure Elucidation since 2006.
Wasan was also a strong, visionary leader in his former role as Chair of the Faculty’s Division of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics from January 2001 to December 2009.
For more information, visit http://www.pharmacy.ubc.ca/aboutus/faculty-news#KWasanAssocDeanResGrad.
