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Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch

Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch (born 6 December 1965) is an Austrian scientist currently serving as Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology at the Institute of Pharmacy, University of Innsbruck.

His research focuses on drug delivery systems, dosage forms, controlled release mechanisms, bionanotechnology, polymer engineering, and tissue engineering. He is the inventor of several technologies, including thiolated polymers, which he named thiomers in 2000, and phosphatase-triggered charge-converting nanoparticles designed for mucosal drug delivery.

Since 2014, Bernkop-Schnürch has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Denmark's Nicotine Science Center. From 2016 to 2018, he served on the Scientific Committee of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) of the European Union, contributing to the Strategic Research Agenda for Horizon 2020 by advising on scientific priorities.

As an entrepreneur, he founded multiple companies, including Thiomatrix Forschungs- und Beratungs GmbH, Mucobiomer Biotechnologische Forschungs- und Entwicklungs GmbH (now part of the Croma-Pharma GmbH) and Green River Polymers Forschungs und Entwicklungs GmbH. In recognition of his scientific impact, he is listed as a Highly Cited Researcher of the Institute for Scientific Information. Provided by Wikipedia