Profile
Title
Prof
Name and surname
Sias Hamman
Job title
Professor
Telephone
018 299 4035
E-mail
sias.hamman@nwu.ac.za
Physical address
North-West University, 11 Hoffman Street, Building G16, Office 130
Campus
Potchefstroom
Qualifications
BPharm, MSc (Pharmaceutics), PhD (Pharmaceutics)
Expertise
Research: Nose-to-brain drug delivery, nasal spray formulations, in vitro pharmacokinetic models, herb-drug pharmacokinetic interactions, drug absorption enhancement, in vitro pharmacokinetics. Teaching and learning: Pharmaceutical calculations
Background
Full professor in Pharmaceutics and Chair of the subject group of Pharmaceutics at North-West University. Module coordinator for Pharmaceutical calculations for undergraduate BPharm students. Supervisor for postgraduate students on the Master’s and Doctoral levels. Research includes drug and phytochemical delivery across excised nasal epithelial tissues, the development of advanced in vitro models for measurement of nose-to-brain drug delivery and composition of nasal spray formulations.