Happy new year from the PAD team at Notre Dame!
Back row: Sarah B, Meg B, Madeline S, Margaret B, Meghanne T, Nils O. Front row: Galen B, Rachel M, Tracy L-C, Dr. L, Jessica Z
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Oxford conference on Medicine Quality and Public Health
The Medicine Quality and Public Health conference at Oxford University had 200 participants from over 50 countries, including the Directors General of the Tanzanian and Nigerian drug regulatory agencies and academics, NGOs, WHO, and pharmaceutical companies.
Marya Lieberman and Philip Coyne attended…
Cartoon version of PAD project at MQPH meeting
At the Oxford MQPH conference, Marya Lieberman presented in a session titled Screening Technologies: Will they Save the Day? The talk was captured by the sketch artist. Here we see a summary of how the PAD works and the results of the supply chain exercise that the 20 students in the short course…
Notre Dame press release on illicit supply chain project
https://news.nd.edu/news/scientists-take-aim-at-illicit-supply-chain-networks-of-fake-medications/
Mercy Maina gets a shout out from Ivanka Trump
NSF awards funding for studying supply chains for illicit pharmaceuticals
The National Science Foundation has awarded our team an exploratory grant to use PADs to detect and dismantle supply chains for bad quality pharmaceuticals. We will work with Professor Karen Smilowitz at…
Bitter Pills
Check out the NPR interview with Muhammad Zaman about his book "Bitter Pills: The Global War on Counterfeit Drugs". He is the BU prof who developed a portable dissolution testing device
Recent review of PADs for pharmaceutical analysis
Blockchain Working Group awards grant to PAD project
Our proposal titled "The whole world is watching: tracking bad quality medicine with citizen science and an electronic ledger" was funded by the Notre Dame Blockchain Working Group for 2018! Computer scientists James and Chris Sweet will work with the PAD project to institute a distributed electronic…
PAD patent licensed to Veripad LLC
Notre Dame has licensed the PAD technology to Veripad, LLC. This startup company has developed a cell-phone based PAD reader that automatically analyzes the PAD image for the user. Watch for more developments!
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WHO study estimates 1 out of 10 medical products in low- and middle-income countries is substandard or falsified
by Zoie Alexiou
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently published an advocacy document in attempt to quantify the cost…