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Biography

Changquan Calvin Sun is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Purdue University, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics in 2000 from the University of Minnesota. After spending 8 years in the pharmaceutical industry, he joined the University of Minnesota Department of Pharmaceutics as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to full professor in 2017. In 2025, he moved to his current role at Purdue University.

Professor Sun鈥檚 research focuses on efficient formulation design of high-quality tablet products through the appropriate application of materials science and engineering principles. Two main areas of his current research are 1) crystal and particle engineering for superior pharmaceutical properties; and 2) fundamental understanding of pharmaceutical processes, including powder compaction. 

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), and a Fellow of the 蜜桃社区.   Professor Sun received the 2019 Ralph Shangraw Memorial Award from the International Pharmaceutical Excipient Council (IPEC) and the 2022 David J. W. Grant Distinguished Scholar Award in Basic Pharmaceutics from the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology and Education (NIPTE).

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