Heidi M. Mansour, PhD
Asst. Professor,
College of Pharmacy,
University of Kentucky

Mansour's research focuses on the application of interfacial phenomena and biocolloidal chemistry in the design of advanced drug delivery self-assembly systems and development of pulmonary inhalation aerosols for targeted lung drug delivery (pulmonary disease treatment) and for novel needle-free vaccine inhalation aerosol delivery (pulmonary disease prevention) as multifunctional multicomponent microparticles and nanoparticles.

Prior to her faculty appointment at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, she was an instructor (both in the Graduate and Pharm.D. Programs) and a postdoctoral fellow and scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Pharmacy, in the Division of Molecular Pharmaceutics, receiving the 2007 UNC-Chapel Hill Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence from the Office of the Vice-Chancellor. She earned a BS in Pharmacy, PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences with a PhD Major in Drug Delivery/Pharmaceutics and a PhD Minor in Advanced Physical & Biophysical Chemistry, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mansour was honored during the 2007 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) annual meeting in San Diego, receiving the PhRMA Postdoctoral Fellow Award in Pharmaceutics and the AAPS Postdoctoral Fellow Award for research excellence. She is the recipient of several other awards and fellowships: the Walter F. Enz Award in Research Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, a two-year AFPE Pre-Doctoral Fellow Award, a two-year PhRMA Advanced Predoctoral Fellow Award in Pharmaceutics, an NIH-UNC Regional Training Award, and the Merck Award in Excellence in Pharmacy. 

Mansour is an active member of several professional organizations, including Fellow of the American Academy of Nanomedicine, AAPS, CRS, AACP, ACS, Rho Chi, and Golden Key, just to name a few. She was nominated for membership and service in the World Academy of Science, Engineering & Technology (Scientific Committee on Biological, Biomedical, and Medical Sciences and the Scientific Committee on Health and Medical Sciences) in 2007. In addition to being an editorial advisory board member (EAB) of Pharmaceutical Technology, Mansour is an EAB member of the International Journal of Biological and Medical Sciences and the International Journal of Biomedical Sciences.