CDT Spring Colloquium 2019: Day 2 UCL School of Pharmacy

The second day of the Colloquium focussed on the research themes:

Molecular therapeutics & formulation, targeted skin delivery, protein therapeutics and cell-based drug delivery methods. This was the final Colloquium for the CDTs Year 4 students who will be submitting their theses in September 2019.

 James Butler

James Butler from GSK gave the plenary talk on his work within a European Collaboration to investigate ‘In vitro models for the prediction of in vivo performance of oral dosage forms’ which has been published in the European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

Molecular therapeutics & formulation session from left to right: Fabrizio Fina (session chair), Sadie Swainson, Emanuele Russo, Valentina Hashad, Adelaide Jewell, Paula Muresan and Lorenzo Schiazza

Targeted skin delivery from left to right: Sarah Trenfield (session chair), Jatin Mistry, Rebeca Obenza Otero and Akmal Sabri

Protein therapeutics from left to right:  Rachael Xerri (session chair), Saja Muwaffak, Raphael Egbu, Simon Kellaway and Kenneth Ho

Cell-based drug delivery methods from left to right:  Kaouthar Bouzinab (chair), Rachael Evans, Maha Muwaffak, Karolina Dziemidowicz, Itse Onuwaje and Liisa Niitsoo

Student speakers group photo

The CDT would like to congratulate our four prize winners: The CDT awarded the best final year presentation prize to Sadie Swainson, the best Flash presentation prizes to Akmal Sabri (Year 3) and Liisa Niitsoo (Year 2), and the best poster prize to Lorenzo Schiazza (Year 2).

Gareth Williams awarded prizes for best student presentations and best poster: Top row: Liisa Niitsoo and Akmal Bin Sabri, Bottom row: Lorenzo Schiazza and Sadie Swainson.

The CDT would like to thank all presenting students, session chairs and James Butler for their contributions to the Colloquium