Turkey Run 2022
Congratulations to Alyssa Wicks for passing her ARP!
Alyssa signed up for an early ARP time and passed with flying colors! Congratulations, Alyssa.
Congratulations to Olatunde Awosiji Awotunde, Nicholas Roseboom, and Jin Cai!
Discrimination of Substandard and Falsified Formulations from Genuine Pharmaceuticals Using NIR Spectra and Machine Learning
Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is a low-cost analytical tool for rapid characterization of pharmaceuticals. Usually, it's necessary to build up a "library" of NIR spectra…
Heather's paper selected as one of top 5 for 2021 by ACS Environmental Science and Technology
New system for tracking DPAL samples and data piloted
Rachel Roller presents the MICRO project at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education
Using Paper Microfluidics as a Platform for Increasing Inquiry in the Analytical Laboratory
K. Frederick, A.L. Van Wyk, R.S. Cole, M. Lieberman, R. Roller
Rachel Roller makes the case that paper labware can change the nature of laboratory instruction so it's closer to authentic…
Congratulations to Heather Whitehead, whose paper on instrument-free detection of DNA with Nile Blue was just accepted by Analytical Methods!
Many nucleic acid tests (NATs) rely on a DNA amplification step as the detection mechanism for pathogens, viral load, and so on. Usually, DNA concentration is measured using a spectrophotometric instrument that costs tens of thousands of dollars. In this paper, Heather Whitehead used an inexpensive…
Webinar on HPLC troubleshooting
Congratulations to Kathleen Hayes, People's Choice Award in 3MT contest
Kat Hayes was selected as the People's Choice winner of the 2021 Shaheen 3-minute Thesis contest. Using one static slide, no jargon, and 3 minutes of time, contestants had to explain their graduate research to a general university audience.
Congratulations to Heather Whitehead, Meghanne Tigh, and Megan Green--PFAS paper goes viral
Heather is the first author on this manuscript with Graham Peaslee, which has been accessed over 66,000 times--it's one of EST's most highly accessed articles in 2021!
Environ.…
Welcome to Graduate Student Olatunde Awosiji Awotunde
Ola is working on data analytics for pharmaceutical analysis,…
Health systems model shows cost-effectiveness of screening amoxicillin quality
Sarah Bliese's paper with the Ozawa group at NC State is now published! Sachiko Ozawa's group developed an agent-based model, ESTEEM (Examining Screening Technologies with Economic Evaluations for Medicines), to estimate…
Kyle Moon recieves $300 Undergraduate Research Award from Eck Institute
Undergraduate Kyle Moon was selected as a recipient for a $300 undergraduate research grant from the Eck Insitute of Global Health. Kyle is working on a rapid and instrument-free test for childhood lead exposure. Good luck on this project, Kyle!
Oopsy!
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.
Sarah's J. Chem. Ed. paper is accepted!
Meghanne's paper about validation of the lead sampling kit is published!
Oxford Statement published in Lancet Global Health
Every person has the right to receive safe, quality medical products – but all too often, this isn’t the case.
- Poor-quality medical products (including medicines, vaccines, biologics and diagnostics) fall into two categories: substandard or …
Ceftriaxone paper accepted
Congratulations to Sarah Bliese, whose paper on analysis of ceftriaxone via the 12-lane PAD was just accepted in Analytical Methods. Sarah used principal component analysis (PCA) to differentiate good and bad products and even to figure out why a given product was bad quality.
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No HPLC? No problem!
Nick Meyers' paper on quantitative analysis of beta lactams on a paper card was just accepted by Analytical Methods. Congratulations Nick! The aPAD accuracy is about 5%, not quite as good as an HPLC, but then again, the aPAD doesn't cost $40,000.
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ACS InChemistry article about Marya Lieberman's upcoming Eminent Scientist lecture
Madeline Smith won an outstanding poster award at the Gordon Conference
Madeline's poster was titled, "The chemoPAD…