Education
Akhtar obtained a First Class honours degree in Pharmacy from the Leicester School of Pharmacy and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Bath.
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Career
From 1990-1991, he held a post-doctoral fellowship at University of North Carolina Medical School at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He began his independent academic career at Aston University, firstly as lecturer from 1991–1997 and then as Reader in Pharmaceutical Sciences (1997–1999). He led a team studying deoxyribonucleic acid chip technology with a hope of combatting a form of brain cancer known as glioma.
In 1997, he was a visiting fellow with Editor Southern in the Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University.
He later became professor of Drug Delivery in the Welsh School of Pharmacy and Director for the Centre for Genome-based Therapeutics, Cardiff University, United Kingdom (2002–2006). His current research interests include a) studying molecular pharmacology and signal transduction pathways involved in diabetes and/or hypertension-induced cardiovascular dysfunction.
B)understanding the biological and pharmaceutical challenges associated with the development of gene silencing nucleic acids (Ribonucleic acid interference/ siRNA/ antisense oligonucleotides) as potential therapeutic agents. And c) studying the toxicogenomics of novel drugs and non-viral drug delivery systems
Akhtar has also provided health advice for fasting during Ramadan.
