Rana Rais is a Neurology faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Director of the Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics group of Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery (JHDD). She received her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences and has substantial experience in biopharmaceutics, drug transport, drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, formulations, and drug delivery including prodrug design and characterization. She has co-authored over 45 publications, and is an inventor on nine patents and applications.