Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch

Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch
Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch
Born	(1965-12-06) 6 December 1965 Klagenfurt, Austria
Residence	Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Fields	Pharmaceutical Sciences
Institutions	University of Innsbruck, Institute of Pharmacy
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Known for	thiomers, peptide drug delivery, multifunctional polymers, self-emulsifying drug delivery systems
Notable awards	Eurand Award (2000), Phoenix Science Award for Pharmacy (2005), Houska Award (2007), Austrian Nano Award (2008), Ernst Brandl Award (2015)

Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch (born in Klagenfurt 6 December 1965) is an Austrian pharmaceutical technologist, scientist, pharmacist, entrepreneur, inventor and professor at the Institute of Pharmacy, University of Innsbruck. His research centers on the areas of pharmaceutical sciences, drug delivery, cosmetic science, bionanotechnology and polymer engineering. He is the inventor of various novel technologies such as thiomers and zeta potential changing nanocarriers.

Biography

Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch descends from a long-established Austrian apothecary family.^[1] He was educated in pharmacy at the Institute of Pharmacy (M.Sc.) and in microbiology and genetics at the Institute of Microbiology and Genetics (D.Sc.), University of Vienna, finishing his doctorate in 1994. From 1994-1999 he worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Pharmacy, University of Vienna. In 1999 he applied to qualify as a professor by receiving the "venia docendi" in pharmaceutical technology. In 2003 Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch was appointed to a chair in pharmaceutical technology at the University of Innsbruck. From 2006-2013 he served as dean of the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy.^[2] Since then he heads the Institute of Pharmacy.^[3] In parallel he works at his pharmacy (Bärenapotheke) in Sankt Veit an der Glan. Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch and his wife, Astrid, have three children. His hobbies are golf, mountain biking, tennis and wind- and kitesurfing.

Research

Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch is a leading scientist of multifunctional polymers in the field of drug delivery and therapy. He invented and pioneered thiolated polymers – thiomers – as a new generation of bio- and mucoadhesive polymers. Various medicines based on thiomers have already successfully passed clinical trials^[4]^[5] and a first product for treatment of dry eye syndrome will soon reach the global pharmaceutical market.^[6] Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch also pioneered zeta potential changing nanocarriers and contributed substantial basic knowledge to the field of self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (SEDDS) for mucosal delivery of macromolecular drugs.

He is currently a member of the Scientific Committee^[7] of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) of the European Union in Brusseles giving advice on scientific priorities to be included in the Strategic Research Agenda for Horizon 2020 and on the scientific advisory board of the Nicotine Science Center,^[8] Denmark. Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch is the founder of Mucobiomer Biotechnologische Forschungs- und Entwicklungs GmbH (now part of the Croma-Pharma GmbH), Thiomatrix Forschungs- und Beratungs GmbH and Green River Polymers Forschungs und Entwicklungs GmbH.

Awards

Andreas Bernkop-Schnürch has been awarded more than 20 national and international awards. These include:

HERBA-Award 1996
Research-Award of the City of Vienna 1999^[9]
Eurand-Award 2000^[10]
Best of Biotech Award 2001^[11]
MBPW Award 2002^[12]
Best of Biotech Award 2003^[13]
Adventure X Award 2004^[14]
Phoenix Science Award for Pharmacy 2005^[15]
de:Houskapreis award 2007
Eurand Award 2007^[16]
Austrian Nano Award 2008^[17]
Ernst Brandl Award 2015^[18]

Selected works

He is author of over 300 research articles and reviews as well as editor and (co-)author of several books.

Bernkop-Schnürch, Andreas (1996). Oral Delivery of Macromolecular Drugs: Barriers, Strategies and Future Trends. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-0200-9.
Reis, RL; Neves, NM; Mano, JF; Gomes, ME; Marques, AP; Azevedo, HS (2008). Natural-Based Polymers for Biomedical Applications. CRC Press. ISBN 9781845694814.
Jayakumer, R; Prabaharan, M; Muzzarelli, RAA (2011). Chitosan for Biomaterials I. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-23114-8.
Dumitriu, S; Popa, V (2013). Polymeric Biomaterials: Structure and Function, Volume 1. CRC Press. ISBN 9781420094701.
Bonengel, S; Bernkop-Schnürch, A (2014). "Thiomers - From bench to market". J. Control. Rel. 195: 120–129. doi:10.1016/j.jconrel.2014.06.047.
Partenhauser, A; Bernkop-Schnürch, A (2016). "Mucoadhesive polymers in the treatment of dry X syndrome.". Drug Discov Today. 21: 1051–1062. doi:10.1016/j.drudis.2016.02.013.
Bonengel, S; Prüfert, F; Jelkmann, M; Bernkop-Schnürch, A (2016). "Zeta potential changing phosphorylated nanocomplexes for pDNA delivery". Int. J. Pharm. 504: 117–124. doi:10.1016/j.ijpharm.2015.10.021.
Perera, G; Zipser, M; Bonengel, S; Salvenmoser, W; Bernkop-Schnürch, A (2015). "Development of phosphorylated nanoparticles as zeta potential inverting systems". Eur. J. Pharm. Biopharm. 97: 250–256. doi:10.1016/j.ejpb.2015.01.017.
Bonengel, S; Prüfert, F; Perera, G; Schauer, J; Bernkop-Schnürch, A (2015). "Polyethylene imine-6-phosphogluconic acid nanoparticles-a novel zeta potential changing system". Int. J. Pharm. 483: 19–25. doi:10.1016/j.ijpharm.2015.01.041.
Leonaviciute, G; Bernkop-Schnürch, A (2015). "Self-emulsifying drug delivery systems in oral (poly)peptide drug delivery". Expert Opin. Drug Deliv. 12: 1703–1716. doi:10.1517/17425247.2015.1068287.

As of June 2016 his publications have been cited over 13,000 and his H-index is 61^[19]

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