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Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Research
Drug delivery
Drug delivery is an applied research area focussing on absorption of drugs into the body through various sites and on the design and development of formulations of these drugs to produce highly effective products that are capable of achieving the required therapeutic outcomes.
This area covers a broad range of disciplines which together are focussed on the design, development and evaluation of new or improved drug products or formulations. For example, these formulations may be novel systems designed to improve the oral absorption of drugs, or to enhance the delivery of drugs across the skin or via the lungs.
Drug delivery research ranges from fundamental research into the inter-relationship between the chemical properties of drugs and excipients and the biology associated with any absorption mechanisms, drug elimination and distribution through to more applied research focussed on the development of commercial products including the design and development of dosage forms, and the evaluation of physico-chemical and bulk properties of drugs and excipients, processing techniques and stability of drugs and formulations.
Within the faculty, there is a strong emphasis in oral, lymphatic, transdermal, respiratory and colloidal drug delivery, and on the physicochemical and analytical characterisation of drugs.
Drug delivery activities
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