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…
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…
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!
Madeline was …
Meghanne is working to discover environmental lead in pre-1978 homes without using children as the detection tool.
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…
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…
ASTMH Journal has a good review of policy options for combatting falsified and substandard medicines--link here. …
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…
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!
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/
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
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…
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…
https://news.nd.edu/news/scientists-take-aim-at-illicit-supply-chain-networks-of-fake-medications/
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…
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
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…
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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PBS Newshour for Dec. 14 included an 8 min segment on falsified and substandard medicines in…
Congratulations to the Veripad team, which received $50K in equity-free support from this round of the Mass Challenge accelerator program. This award will…
Veripad is a startup company that uses PAD technology and a cell phone reader app to detect suspicious pharmaceuticals. They were just selected to compete for a share of $USD 1.5 million in the…
Laboratory Equipment put together a nice piece on the PAD project, featuring Toni Barstis's team at Saint Marys College and Veripad.
Under the guidance of Prof. Toni Barstis, students from Saint Marys College are using PADs to test drug quality in Nepal.
Sandipan Banerjee has been training a neural network to recognize the color signatures from different types of pharmaceuticals. The program is nearly as accurate as human readers.
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We're excited to be named as a finalist for the Round 7 Saving Lives at Birth seed award. Our innovation wll help birth attendants to treat bleeding after childbirth with high quality medicines that can save lives.
When kids don't get enough iodine in their diet, growth and brain development are stunted. We developed a paper test card to help medical authorities and nutrition specialists monitor the need for iodine supplements in different populations.
Full details are available open access at PLOS-ONE