Fields of interest 

• Drug Targeting with nanotechnological carriers 
• Formulating small molecule and biotech medicines 
• Formulating vaccines

selection of awards:

• He won the KNMP Award for Best Student in Pharmacy of the year 1966 in Groningen. 
• He was the winner of the Maurice-Marie Janot award in 1995. 
• He received the International Award of the Belgian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1997. 
• He received the ‘D. van Os penning’ for his contributions to the pharmaceutical sciences in 2002. 
• Recipients of the Saal van Zwanenberg Award in October 2002 
• He received an honorary doctorate from the Royal Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences in November 2002. 
• He gave The Takeru and Aya Higuchi Award Lecture for the APSTJ, May 2008 in Sapporo, Japan.
• Septembr 2013 he received the Host Madsen award; the highest award for scientific achievements of  the International Pharmaceutical Federation (F.I.P.
• He received an honorary doctorate from Semmelweis University, Budapest, in November 2018.