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Nick's elevator pitch at the 2016 Micronutrient Formum in Cancun is the subject of an article posted at the UND College of Science website. Congratulations!
Nick's elevator pitch at the 2016 Micronutrient Formum in Cancun is the subject of an article posted at the UND College of Science website. Congratulations!
PAD project REU'er Muriel McClendon was recognized for her work in the summer of 2016.
On November 11, 2016, in Tampa, FL, Muriel McClendon placed fifth in the Chemistry Division at the ABRCMS Conference (Annual Biomedical Research Conference…
This blog focuses on new technologies with potential to impact global heath. The PAD project is highlighted in the 14 Nov. 2016 posting.
Nicholas Myers pitched the saltPAD at the Micronutrient Forum in Cancun Mexico, explaining how this simple paper device could help program managers monitor iodine nutrition. He won second prize, out of a field of 70 entrants from 18 countries. The pitch was repeated in 1 minute format at the gala…
Jamie Luther presented a poster at the October 12 MUACC meeting at the University of Illinios Urbana-Champaign and received a poster prize from the assembled analytical chemists. The poster described the "milkPAD" she is developing to detect adulteration of dairy milk, a bit of unsavory product manipulation…
See the COS web site for an article featuring…
Derek Lowe's blog "In the Pipeline" reports on a story about massive problems in regulatory oversight of drug approval in China.
A report in the Chinese newspaper Economic
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The BBC features interviews with Sproxil and mPedigree about the counterfeit drug problem in Africa.
Pills marked as hydrocodone contained fentanyl, an overdose of which was the cause of death determined in June by the Midwest medical examiner's office. Full report…
MITI Health was started by Stanford medical student Jessica Vernon as a way to provide high quality medicines to pharmacists in Kenya. The PAD project and AMPATH are partners with MITI Health; we help them conduct confirmatory assays on suspicious products. This KQED news piece describes how a…
Business Daily Africa reports on a whistleblower's claims that in exchange for bribes, the Pharmacy and Poisons board issued permits for non-registered suppliers to import low-quality drugs into Kenya between 2005 and 2011. The Chief Registrar is implicated in the claims. We'll be following this…
July 26, 2016 (Notre Dame, Ind.) — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent No. 9,354,181 to researchers at Saint Mary’s College and the University of Notre Dame…
Muriel Mcclendon (Chicago State University), Sarah Bliese (Hamline College), and Albert Vargas (UND) spent two weeks in Eldoret and Nairobi as part of the Analytical Chemistry REU program. Muriel worked on a quantitative paper test card for antibiotics and gave a presentation at Eldoret University,…
Congratulations to the VeriPAD team, which won the $25,000 social impact prize at CUNY's Zahn Innovation Center Business Plan competition. This team took the 12-lane PAD and developed a mobile phone application to help interpret the PAD results. Da…
US Patent 9,354,181, Analytical devices for detection of low-quality pharmaceuticals, was issued May 31, 2016, to Toni Barstis, Patrick Flynn, and Marya Lieberman.
Toni, Pat, and Marya are grateful to Allan Fanucci at Winstrom & Strawn LLP, who acted for us and provided most valuable…
Prof. Lieberman is very pleased to report that she has received financial backing from VWR International, a global laboratory supplier and distributor of chemicals, consumables, equipment, and instruments. Through their relationship with Notre Dame, VWR is providing Prof. Lieberman with $10,000 per…
In the third week of September, 2011, a worker loaded white powders from drums and plastic bags into a mixing machine at Efonze Chemical Industries to produce Batch J093 of a drug called Isotab. It had been ordered by a cardiac clinic in Pakistan. One of the drums, labeled as pre-gelatinized starch, was probably filled with pyrimethamine. A batch of this antimalarial medicine had arrived in a moldy container earlier in the month and been transferred to a blue drum, the same type of drum used to hold starch. Perhaps no-one updated the label. In any case, over 20 Kg of pyrimethamine was somehow added to the batch of isosorbide mononitrate. Each heart pill that was pressed contained over 50 mg of this drug in addition to the intended active ingredient; patients who took the heart medicine would receive doses of 100-150 mg pyrimethamine per day. The recommended dose of pyrimethamine is just 25 mg per week. The consequences to hundreds of Pakistanis would be devastating.
Three of the groups involved with the distributed pharmaceutical analysis lab (DPAL) are highlighted in the March 2016 newsletter for Chemists Without Borders.
Special issue of Nanobiomedicine, edited by Barbara Smith of ASU, Meeting the Needs of Health Care across the Globe
In order to determine whether a population is receiving enough iodine in their food, it's necessary to measure this micronutrient in urine samples. The analysis is very difficult because the concentrations are so low--between 10 and 500 parts per billion.
The Centers for Disease Control…
Nicholas Myers came in 2nd place in the 3MT Thesis Summary event this evening, winning an enormous sum (photo coming tomorrow).
Finals for the 3MT are Wednesday March 14, 4-6 pm, in the Jordan Auditorium. Come cheer for the presenters!
July 4-9, 2016. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The short course is aimed at personnel who are involved and/or interested in medical product quality (medicines, diagnostics, vaccines). The course will be aimed at global public health issues, and those found in low-, middle-…
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016: The Nation (one of the main Kenyan newspapers) published an article about our effort to detect low quality drugs in Eldoret, Kenya.
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Notre Dame juniors Tabitha Healy and Paulina Eberts are assisting with the repair of four HPLC systems that will be donated to labs in Africa. They accompanied Prof. Lieberman to Eldoret over the winter break.
Tabitha and Paulina working with one of the Waters HPLC instruments in the drug analysis…