Lynne Taylor

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Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy

Lynne S. Taylor is the Retter Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy in the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, Purdue University. Prior to moving to academia, she spent several years working at AstraZeneca in Sweden developing new drugs. Lynne received a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree with First Class Honors from the University of Bath in the UK. Her PhD was undertaken at the University of Bradford, UK, in the area of Pharmaceutical Technology. After her PhD, Lynne was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Research in Lynne’s group is directed toward exploring the science underlying the preformulation, formulation and manufacturing of drugs and other bioactive substances, with a particular focus on poorly water soluble compounds. She has published more than 350 peer reviewed articles. Lynne has received a number of awards including the Coblentz Society Craver Award in Applied Vibrational Spectroscopy (2014), the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis Outstanding Manuscript award (2007), the Ebert prize for the best manuscript in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2012) and the Pharmaceutical Research meritorious manuscript award (2012), the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Student mentor (2019) and the Dale E. Wurster Research Award (2020). Lynne is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, and is editor-in-chief of the ACS journal, Molecular Pharmaceutics. In her spare time she enjoys running, swimming, biking and cooking.