Yılmaz Çapan Prof.

Yılmaz Çapan is professor and head of the Pharmaceutical Technology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Hacettepe University, Turkey. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from Hacettepe University in 1972 and PhD with honors from the University of Lille, Faculty of Pharmacy, France, in 1978. He has authored more than 80 publications in prestigious, refereed pharmaceutical science journals, with a current citation number of more than 2000, and 3 books. Prof. Çapan is a member of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, the Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ankara, the Turkish Pharmacists' Association, and the Pharmacist's Chamber of Ankara. His research interests include tabletting sustained-release oral solid dosage forms, bioadhesion, protein delivery from biodegradable microspheres, and brain drug targeting.