Associate Professor Susan Hua (BPharm, Hons, PhD, MPS) is an academic pharmacist and has been a full-time teaching and research (T&R) academic in the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy at the University of Newcastle since 2010.
She is a registered pharmacist in Australia and has several years’ experience across various fields of pharmacy, including hospital, community and research. Since her appointment at the University of Newcastle, Associate Professor Hua has independently established the first translational nanopharmaceutics laboratory and research program in the Hunter region focused on therapeutic targeting using pharmaceutical technology and nanotechnology.
Her background as a clinical pharmacist has given her a thorough clinical understanding of therapeutics and disease states, and has allowed her to identify promising research avenues in therapeutics and drug delivery.
Associate Professor Hua is the Head of the Therapeutic Targeting and Translational Nanopharmaceutics Research Program at the University of Newcastle, Director of the Translational Pharmaceutics & Medical Technologies Theme for the Precision Medicine Research Program at the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI), and Director of the Australian NanoPain Network (Newcastle Node). She is also on the Research Advisory Committee (RAC) of the National Foundation of Medical Research and Innovation (NFMRI), which is a select panel of eminent medical practitioners and industry executives that have the expertise in translating research to the clinic.