The 2012 Point of Care Diagnostics meeting in Nairobi, Kenya brought together academic researchers and public health, policy, and medical caregivers in developing countries. A common theme was the difficulty of the path from research ideas in university laboratories to effective diagnostic tools…
Our recent publication in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene was picked up in an article on SciDevNet.
The $1,000 award will be conferred on May 29, 2015 at the Joint Great Lakes and Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society. …
Access to high-quality medicine is a basic human right, but more than four billion people live in countries where many medications are substandard or fake. Marya Lieberman of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame and Abigail Weaver, a postdoctoral associate in the University’s Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental and Earth Sciences, took up the challenge of how people in developing countries could detect low-quality antimalarial drugs without expensive equipment and without handling dangerous chemicals.
Using surface-tension enabled mixing (STEM), Nicholas Meyers and Emalee Kernisan developed a titration on paper with part per million sensitivity for detection of iodate in iodized salt. The titration also can be used in a quantitative assay for amoxicillin, a common beta lactam antibiotic. …
Dr. Abigail Weaver defended her thesis on Tuesday, November 25, 2014. She will be joining the group of Prof. Joshua Shrout in the Civil Engineering/Geosciences Department at Notre Dame to study biofilms. Best of luck to Gail as she starts this new chapter in her life!
"This accomplishment embodies Baxter's own priorities and commitment to expanding access to care," stated Dennis Jenke, one of Baxter's Distinguished Scientists.
Non-prescription diet pills may contain banned prescription drugs....
Some of the products we have analyzed do not contain active pharmaceutical ingredients and could be dangerous to patients.
Graduate student Abigail Weaver was selected from over 100 applicants as a recipient of the Baxter Young Investigator Award. This award program was developed to stimulate and reward research that can be directly used for critical care therapies and the development of medical products that save and…
The United States Pharmacopeia has selected Nick Myers as one of three USP Global Fellows in 2014-2015. Nick will develop a new type of paper-based test that can detect pharmaceuticals that don't contain…
We have made more than 8,000 PADs in the last two years--an amazing feat for our faithful spotting robot Dot the Bot and all the students who have participated in making the test cards.
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Summer is a great time for student research, and we are glad to welcome undergraduates Ivan Leung, Rebecca Ryan, Steven Froelich, Cameron Miller, and Esseabasi Etim, along with high school researchers Margaret Berta, Mike Dowd, and Myracle Newsome.
Ivan is a long time project member…
Improving access to high quality medicines is a huge global problem, and both technological and economic solutions are needed. Students Sean McGee, Luke Smith, Chase Lane, and Valeriano Lima have taken a hard look at the economics of paper analytical devices (PADs) for testing pharmaceuticals,…
The PAD project was featured in "Check it out," a Fox News series about science and technology that's making people's lives better.
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Detailed information about components of falsified pharmaceuticals helps to identify the types of fake medicines circulating in a country, and may shed light on the manufacturing processes and possible sources of the drug components. Dr. Mandal joins the PAD project in March of 2014 to develop new tools to analyze fake medicines found in low resource settings.
What do you do when the airport burns down and you have to get your film crew, expensive camera equipment, student, and professor out of the country?
