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PhD defense
Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Bliese on her successful defense of her PhD thesis, entitled "DEVELOPING SCREENING TECHNOLOGIES FOR LOW RESOURCE SETTINGS". Sarah is headed to Virginia.
Eliza Herrero interview in C&E News
US Pharmacopiea evaluates PADs as pharmaceutical screening technology
DPAL project is published in J. Chem. Ed, congratulations to Sarah Bliese!
Sarah Bliese and Margaret Berta's paper on the distributed pharmaceutical analysis lab (DPAL) was just published in J. Chem. Ed.
The distributed pharmaceutical analysis laboratory (DPAL) is a collaboration between 30 academic…
Lancet Global Health Comment on risks to global pharma supply chain from COVID-19
A comment just published in Lancet Global Health expresses concern for the whole global supply chain due to the COVID-19 pandemic. M. Lieberman is one of the 53 co-authors. The comment urges the…
Why COVID-19 increases the chance your other medicines will be bad quality
How does a global pandemic affect medicine quality? According to a blog posting by researcher Elizabeth Pisani, it is likely to result in numerous breakdowns in…
Detect lead in drinking water with a $0.45 filter cap
Congratulations to Dr. Madeline Eberle on her dissertation defense!
Madeline passed her PhD defense on Monday Feb. 10, 2020. Her projects will keep two graduate students busy....Kat Hayes is taking on the chemoPAD work, and Ornella Joseph will follow up on the urinary iodide PAD. Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Eberle!
Paper test card detects common cutting agent in street drugs--Jessica Zinna's paper accepted by Analytical Methods
Using enzymes embedded in a paper test card, Jessica Zinna and Tracy Lockwood developed an accurate test for lactose in illicit drugs.