Editor-in-Chief, AAPS PharmSciTech
Lee E. Kirsch, Ph.D., professor of pharmaceutics and biochemical and chemical engineering at the University of Iowa, received his B.S. (1975) from Purdue University and his Ph.D. (1982) from The Ohio State University in pharmaceutical chemistry. He was an industrial scientist and group leader for 12 years at Lilly Research Laboratories before joining the faculty at Iowa in 1995. He is the chair-elect of the faculty committee for the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology and Education (NIPTE).
He is an active member of the AAPS and the Parenteral Drug Association. He was the editor of the PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology from 2000 to 2008 and is currently the editor-in-chief of the AAPS PharmSciTech.