The Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation

Thursday 11th September, 2008 IPI to co-organise RCUK Summer School in Shanghai Oct 2008

IPI staff, Dr Qun Shao & Prof. Jamshed Anwar, in collaboration with Dr Jiwan Zheng of the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica Chinese Academy of Science, are organizing a prestigious RCUK SUMMER SCHOOL on
ADVANCED TECHNIQUES FOR DRUG DELIVERY RESEARCH: MOLECULAR-LEVEL CHARACTERISATION AND IN-SILICO METHODS to be held in Shanghai in Oct 2008.

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Thursday 4th September, 2008 IPI Seminar: ‘Formulating a Fixed Dose, Anti-malarial Drug Combination’

Chinyere Okwelogu from the University of Lagos will shortly be finishing a period of study at the IPI. She will be delivering a talk to present her work carried out at the IPI “Formulating a Fixed Dose, Anti-malarial Drug Combination”

Chinyere’s work is on a fixed-dose formulation of Artesunate and Amodiaquine Hydrochloride. These are two anti-malarial drugs approved by WHO as combination therapy against resistant malarial.

Her talk will cover:

1) Establishing an HPLC assay method for the drugs

2) Formulating stable combination of these drugs

3) Carrying out stability studies on the formulations

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