Dr Somasree Ray is Professor at the Department of Pharmaceutics, Gupta College of Technological Sciences, Asansol, West Bengal, India. She completed her B.Pharm ,M.Pharm and PhD Degree from Jadavpur University. Her research interests are centered on design and physicochemical characterization of advanced drug delivery systems based on natural polymers. She has received ‘Teacher of the year 2018’ award from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, India. She has over 10 years of research experience, and has mentored 40 master’s theses based on the development and characterization of sustained release drug delivery systems, nanostructured drug delivery systems and the development of hydrogel films for wound healing applications.