Ling Zhu from Robin Bogner’s Lab at UConn won the best poster award at the International Society of Lyophilization/Freeze-Drying Chicago meeting in April.  His poster reported on the CPPR project, Characterization of the Porous Structure of Freeze-Dried Cakes.

Dana Moseson from Lynne Taylor’s group at Purdue published more results from their CPPR funded project.  Learn more about  Optimization of Amorphization Kinetics during Hot Melt Extrusion by Particle Engineering: An Experimental and Computational Study | Crystal Growth & Design (acs.org).   

CPPR Student, Shipra Malik, from Dr. Raman Bahal’s lab at UConn was the recipient of the first ever CPPR Steven Nail Emerging Researcher Award for her 3-Minute Thesis Presentation and poster update of her ongoing project, Effect of Freeze Drying using Cryoprotectants on the stability of Nucleic Acid loaded PLGA nanoparticles.

In May, 65 faculty, industrial scientists, students and guests met to discuss research proposals and ongoing research on innovations in pharmaceutical processing of small and large molecular therapeutics.  Steve Nail, one of the founders of CPPR, gave a very motivating keynote address focusing on the people who influenced his career and the pharmaceutical processing field. 

 

Free Tech Note by CPPR Faculty, Xiuling Lu, Based on her SP Scientific Webinar 

SP Scientific, a CPPR company, is making available for free a tech note fc0b7561-8250-4b9e-92e9-a5150c4bcfb2.pdf (ctctusercontent.com)based on Dr. Xiuling Lu’s excellent webinar on the Freeze-Drying Nanoparticles.  

CPPR Faculty at University of Connecticut, Dr. Na Li, was awarded one of this year’s Research Starter Grants in Drug Delivery for her novel research in how the particle drifting effect enhances oral absorption of colloidal drug systems.    

Dr. Tony Zhou, Associate Professor of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy and CPPR Associate Site Director at Purdue, receives 2021 Young Investigator Award from the Pharmaceutics Journal. This award recognizes young researchers who have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics.  

SP Scientific, a CPPR company, is making available for free a tech note 0ca96f61-ab71-4bd7-976a-c6802f23d802.pdf (ctctusercontent.com) based on Dr. Munjal’s expert webinar on Formulation Components for Freeze-Drying. 

The January 2023 issue of JPharmSci will be dedicated to Raj Sury for his contributions to the understanding of solids and lyophilized formulations. Those interested in contributing to the issue should contact Dr. Seema Thakral (sthakral109@gmail.com). 

CPPR student, Wei-Chung Jimmy Luo, and his advisor, Xiuling Lu, from UConn, along with coworkers showed the different lyoprotectants required for several types of nanoparticles.  Click on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2021.10.014  to read more.