Arto Urtti is professor emeritus of biopharmaceutics at University of Helsinki. He holds similar part time position at University of Eastern Finland. He is expert in drug delivery and pharmacokinetics, especially in the context of ocular drug delivery.
Sina Bahrpeyma graduated from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences with a Pharm.D. in 2013. After defending his PhD thesis in 2025 titled Binding of ocular drugs to melanin and melanosomes: new in vitro methodology and pharmacokinetic impact he has continued to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland as well as a visiting researcher at University of Helsinki.
Shirin received her Pharm.D degree from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran in 2013. She started her doctoral studies in 2016 by working on NANOMED project (H2020-MSCA-ITN) and defended her dissertation titled Intravitreal liposomes as ocular drug delivery systems : vitreal interactions, retinal permeation and drug release characteristics in 2021. Currently she is working as a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. Her research is focused on drug delivery and targeting to retina by nanomedicines.