Dr. Mohammad Owais is currently serving as a professor of biotechnology at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Besides active involvement in teaching modern biochemistry/biotechnology courses to M.Sc./Ph.D. students, Dr. Owais has successfully established a small but active research group with focus on nano-particle-based novel delivery systems including dendrimers/virosomes for gene packaging and liposomes, niosomes, microspheres and solid core lipid nano-particles for vaccine delivery, gene delivery, targeted drug delivery etc; with a view to increase the efficacy and safety of encapsulated chemo-therapeutic agents/sub-unit vaccines for some important infectious diseases.