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. 4^th.  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.

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.

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.

Spring Meeting, May 20-22, 2019  University of Connecticut

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Feb 27, 2018 – University of Connecticut

2/27/2018

CPPR is greatly saddened by the untimely passing of Professor Michael Pikal, who through the years, served as the CPPR Site Director at UConn until his recent retirement. Throughout his prolific career, first in industry and later in academia, Dr. Pikal has been a pioneer in the pharmaceutical sciences. His numerous seminal contributions have helped shape the area of drug development in a profound manner. Through his scientific breakthroughs and his mentorship of many of the leading scientists in the field, Mike provided a legacy of excellence in his endeavors that will be treasured by pharmaceutical scientists everywhere throughout the years.  We count ourselves as being fortunate that we have gotten to share his input and have gotten to witness the tremendous care he brought forth to research, mentorship, and citizenship to those of us lucky enough to have collaborated with him.
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