Research in pharmaceutics
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Overview
The Pharmaceutics and drug delivery group is one of three core disciplines within the School of Pharmacy.
Under the leadership of Professor Marc Brown and Dr Matt Traynor the group has received significant funding from industry, charities and research councils (including the BBSRC, EPSRC and MRC).
The group has an established reputation for translational research with two of its technologies already licensed to industry and undergoing clinical trials.
The University of Hertfordshire is a business facing institution and members of the group have established strong links with the local, national and international Pharmaceutics industry.
The team regularly undertake contract research for the Pharmaceutical industry and have worked on the development of a number of licensed products. The majority of the Pharmaceutics and Drug delivery groups are also members of the Research Centre in Topical Drug Delivery and Toxicology established in 2011.
What the group does
We currently have a diverse range of on-going research which uses a variety of methodologies from the laboratory bench through to non-invasive biophysical human volunteer studies.
The main areas of current research include development of new topical formulations, solid oral dosage forms, nanomedicines and toxicology.
In summary, our activities currently include:
- Drug delivery to the skin and nail
- Airways drug delivery
- Bioadhesive drug delivery
- Nanopharmaceutics
- Toxicology
- Modified release dosage forms
- Pharmaceutical analysis and product characterisation
Key projects
“A fundamental study to determine the difference in barrier properties of healthy and diseased nail in order to aid the development of ungual drug delivery systems”
“Ophthalmic drug delivery to the posterior eye segment using novel polymeric nanoparticles as drug carriers”
“Sebum as a biomonitoring matrix”
“Prediction of skin irritation and sensitisation using an ex vivo skin culture model”
Find out more about these projects on the projects tab.