May Saab
Assistant Dean/Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology
Dr. May Saab received her B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Beirut Arab University in 2003 and a Master degree in pharmaceutical technology in 2009. Based on her high academic performance she was granted a Ph.D. degree scholarship from BAU in pharmaceutical technology in 2010. She joined the faculty of pharmacy at BAU as part time teaching assistant in 2003, and then as a lecturer in 2009, and assistant professor in 2016. Dr. Saab has over 10 years of experience as a laboratory instructor of pharmaceutics, drug dosage forms, principles and kinetics of drug stability, biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics, and over 5 years of experience as a lecturer in pharmaceutical calculations and hospital pharmacy. Since 2016, Dr. Saab started delivering undergraduate courses relevant to Pharmaceutical Technology Department, including, drug dosage forms, drug delivery systems and cosme-pharmaceuticals, in addition to postgraduate courses such as natural polymers in drug delivery. Moreover, she has contributed in the development and the delivery of one of the pharmacy practice courses that involves the drug storage and distribution practices and patient education. Dr. Saab has supervised many PharmD thesis, and master thesis in pharmaceutical technology. - She is a member in the scientific committee at the Order of Pharmacists of Lebanon since 2017. She is also a member in the pharmacy colloquium committee at the ministry of education and higher education since 2016. .
Her research interests cover the field of polymer-based and modified release drug delivery systems and nanotechnology. She has published several research articles in the field of sustained/controlled and gastroretentive drug delivery systems, solid dispersions and nanoemulsions.