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…
Kat Hayes and Vincent Schmitz awarded $30,000 in pitch competition
The Disease Diagnostic INventors Challenge provides funding to focus measurement science and engineering creativity at Purdue, IU, IBRI and Notre Dame on innovations with the potential to address unmet biomedical needs. Kathleen Hayes and Vincent Schmitz brought together the research strengths of…
Heather DiLallo honored by St Mary's College
The 2019 Lumen Christi award was presented to Heather DiLallo, who has worked for many years with the PAD project at Saint Mary's. Heather is a Chemistry major who has worked to detect falsified medicines in Nepal and China…
Congratulations to Alec Helmke, Poster Prize at COS-JAM spring 2019!
Alec is working on color tests for detection of caffeine as a cutting agent in cocaine. He was recognized at the Friday COS-JAM session. Well done!
Congratulations to Madeline Smith for AAUW Graduate Fellowship!
Madeline was …
Congratulations to Meghanne Tighe for an Honorable Mention in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program!
Meghanne is working to discover environmental lead in pre-1978 homes without using children as the detection tool.
Good Guy Tom's
I'm at the icddr,b site in Bandarban, and sharing the facility with about 800 boxes of shoes donated by shoe company Tom's. They promise that for every pair they sell in the US, they'll donate a pair of shoes to children in need. Looks like they are following through. The community health workers…
PADs in Bangladesh
Marya Lieberman gave a workshop about post-market surveillance for 40 staff members from the Directorate General of Drug Administration in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the National Control Lab, and WHO-PQM.
The workshop included a fun project to evaluate the supply chain of a medicine which involved…
Policy actions against falsified and substandard medicine
ASTMH Journal has a good review of policy options for combatting falsified and substandard medicines--link here. …
Article in R&D Magazine about PAD project
Some coverage of Dr. Lieberman's talk at the AAAS national meeting in DC.
R&D Magazine reporting about how paper analytical device was used to detect falsified medicines and the results from…
Thank you to USP!
In analytical chemistry, everything depends on access to high quality reference materials. The US Pharmacopeia donated over $5,000 worth of reference standards to the PAD project in 2019. Thanks for this contribution to our work!
Tracking illicit supply chains with paper analytical devices
Our NSF project to track illicit supply chains using paper analytical devices made the Notre Dame news page...https://research.nd.edu/news/scientists-take-aim-at-illicit-supply-chain-networks-of-fake-medications/
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
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/