Dana Moseson and her advisor Lynne Taylor from Purdue University published their CPPR-funded work on applying phase diagrams to prevent residual crystallinity in hot melt extrudates. See Moseson DE, Taylor LS. The application of temperature-composition phase diagrams for hot melt extrusion processing of amorphous solid dispersions to prevent residual crystallinity. International journal of pharmaceutics. 2018 Dec 20;553(1-2):454-66.
Shreya Kulkarni (UConn), Raj Suryanarayanan (UMinnesota), Joe Rinella (CPPR IAB Mentor from GSK) and Robin Bogner (UConn) published their CPPR research findings on “Mechanisms by which crystalline mannitol improves the reconstitution time of high concentration lyophilized protein formulations” in European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 131, 70-81 (2018).
Kweku Amponsah-Efah, grad student at the University of Minnesota, in Dr. Raj Suryanarayanan’s lab, received one of the 2018 International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council Foundation Graduate Student Scholarship Awards. The award was presented at the IPEC foundation dinner, at the 2018 AAPS annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 4th. Kweku presented two posters: “Characterizing the nature of drug-polymer complexes in aqueous solution using analytical ultracentrifugation” and “Probing the temperature-dependence of structural relaxation times deep in the glassy state of amorphous pharmaceuticals.”
Diane Burgess (UConn) received the AAPS Dale E. Wurster Research Award in Pharmaceutics at AAPS PharmSci360, November 2018 in Washington, DC. For more, see the article in UConn Today.
Professor Stephen R. Byrn (Purdue University) was recognized by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists with the AAPS Pharmaceutical Global Health Award. Dr. Byrn is one of the cofounders of the Kilimanjaro Sustainable Medicines in Africa Program, which is dedicated to enabling quality manufacturing of critical medicines in Africa by Africans.
See the video describing the award.
Wei-Jhe Sun (University of Minnesota), Jukka Rantanen and Calvin Sun (University of Minnesota) published their CPPR research findings on “Ribbon density and milling parameters that determine fines fraction in dry granulation” in Powder Technology, 338:162-167 (2018).
Qi (Tony) Zhou, Assistant Professor at Purdue University, was named the first NIPTE Rising Star. The award was presented at the NIPTE Research Conference at Long Island University on August 22-24, 2018. Read more at nipte.org.
Robin Bogner was named the first Michael J. Pikal NIPTE Distinguished Scholar in Pharmaceutical Processing. The award was presented at the NIPTE Research Conference at Long Island University on August 22- 24, 2018. To read more go to NIPTE.org
Diane Burgess was appointed Pfizer Distinguished Chair in Pharmaceutical Technology at University of Connecticut. For more, see the article in UConn Today
The Center for Pharmaceutical Processing Research has moved to UConn. Read the article.