The Pharmaceutics Group is focused on the molecular mechanism and biological basis of drug development.
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Head of group
Research interests within the Pharmaceutics Group
- Analytical method development and validation, GLP, and regulatory affairs
- Animal model development
- Bioadhesive buccal and vaginal delivery systems
- Colloidal delivery systems for peptides and proteins
- Controlled release
- Controlled release technologies
- Delivery of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides: current focus is on corneal and epidermal delivery
- Drug transport and cell culture
- Extemporaneous hospital preparations
- Formulation and drug delivery for human and veterinary applications
- Formulation, characterisation and evaluation of veterinary delivery systems
- Herbal formulation development and standardisation
- Intellectual property
- Intranasal delivery of peptides and proteins
- Lipid and surfactant-based drug delivery systems: Formulation, physical-chemical characterisation and biological evaluation of lipid and surfactant-based delivery systems
- Materials science
- Medical devices
- Nanotechnology in drug delivery, protein and peptide delivery
- New drug discovery from natural products
- Ocular drug delivery: evaluation of pharmaceutical systems as vehicles for ocular drug delivery, including ocular retention studies, bioavailability studies, irritation testing and tear film stability studies
- Oral delivery of peptides and proteins
- Osmotic and matrix oral delivery, taste masking and mouth-dissolving preparations
- Particulate systems, including microspheres and microcapsules, nanoparticles, microemulsions
- Pharmaceutical industry consultant on product development, generic formulations, IPR issues, analysis, stability, and dissolution studies
- Pharmaceutics teaching and curriculum
- Preformulation studies with new and existing drugs, solubility and stability improvement
- The solid state of drugs and dosage forms
- Use of expert systems (artificial neural networks) in pharmaceutical formulation and optimisation of drug delivery systems
- Vaginal and rectal microbicides and anti-infective preparations
- Veterinary drug delivery
