In collaboration with a pharmaceutical company, CPPR faculty Diane Burgess and her CPPR student, Tingting Li, along with UCHC Dentisty faculty, Dr. Rajesh Lalla, have developed a formulation containing a local anesthetic and medium chain fatty acid for treatment of oral mucositis. The formulation is sprayed as a liquid and gels on contact to provide local, sustained relief of mouth ulcers resulting from cancer treatments. Read more.
Xiuling Lu, Associate Director of the Kildsig Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research, was awarded the 2019 Robert L. McCarthy Faculty Service Award. In addition to her service to CPPR, Dr. Lu has developed student-learning assistance programs, serves the SinoAmerican Pharmaceutical Association, and much more……
Andre Beringhs (UConn), Bruna Minatovicz (UConn), Geoff Zhang (CPPR IAB from Abbvie), Bodhi Chaudhuri (UConn), and Xiuling Lu published their CPPR research findings on “Impact of Porous Excipients on the Manufacturability and Product Performance of Solid Self-Emulsifying Drug Delivery Systems” in AAPS PharmSci Tech, 19(7):3298-3310 (2018). 