Nick has 3 minutes to be brilliant
Finals for the 3MT are Wednesday March 14, 4-6 pm, in the Jordan Auditorium. Come cheer for the presenters!
Short course on medicine quality at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
July 4-9, 2016. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The short course is aimed at personnel who are involved and/or interested in medical product quality (medicines, diagnostics, vaccines). The course will be aimed at global public health issues, and those found in low-, middle-…
PADs make the Kenyan News
Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016: The Nation (one of the main Kenyan newspapers) published an article about our effort to detect low quality drugs in Eldoret, Kenya.
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ND undergraduates participate in PAD research in Eldoret
Notre Dame juniors Tabitha Healy and Paulina Eberts are assisting with the repair of four HPLC systems that will be donated to labs in Africa. They accompanied Prof. Lieberman to Eldoret over the winter break.
Tabitha and Paulina working with one of the Waters HPLC instruments in the drug analysis…
Nicholas Myers wins 2015 Pacifichem Poster Award
3645 poster abstracts were submitted for Pacifichem 2015, 350 were nominated for the poster competition, and 54 of those won. Congratulations to Nick for his excellent work and ability to WOW the judges!
Nicholas Thurin wins poster award at PINDU
Nicholas Thurin, a senior at Penn High School, presented a poster on his air pollution test card at the Dec. 5, 2015 Purdue-Indiana-Notre Dame University inorganic chemistry conference. Nick generated the nitrogen oxides using Ira Remsen's method*, diluted the gases to part-per-million levels, then designed…
Maven of Millifluidics
Emily Mediate named 2016 Rhodes Scholar
Emily Mediate worked on the PAD project in 2012, organizing and testing some of the Kenyan antibiotic samples and helping Nick get the saltPAD off the ground. She later did research in Uganda focusing on the effectiveness of AIDs interventions.
The Rhodes Scholarship supports students in…
PAD workshop at Future Trends in Latin American Healthcare conference
A hundred policy makers, regulatory officials, and health care providers from Central and South America experiment with a new technology for detecting falsified medications. Paper analytical devices (PADs) are employed to determine which sample of a tuberculosis medication has been adulterated with…
2015 US-AID (DIV) awards announced
AMPATH received support for a program to provide incentives for Kenyan patients to enroll for health insurance; the PAD project will be supported to implement a field screening program working with the pharmacovigilence team at Moi Hospital. Congratulations to all!
The US Agency for international…
PADs at Hospital Pharmacist Association of Kenya Annual meeting
Bad medicine in Bangaladesh
BBC story and video about use of test cards in Kenya
CePAT provides facilities for pharmacopeia testing and training in Ghana
Last Thursday May 21, I had the opportunity to visit the Center for Pharmaceutical Advancement and Training in Accra, Ghana. This lab facility was established by USP in May of 2013, so it's just two years old. The director is…
BBC shows PADs in use at Moi Hospital
The short segment aired Saturday May 23 on BBC International's HealthCheck program as part of a larger theme of finding and fighting poor quality medications; I'll post a link as soon as I get it from the producers.
Here Zoe Flood is shooting video of some of the pharmacy students using…
Develop point-of-care tests in partnership with expected users
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…
Sci Dev Net article features antimalarial PAD
Our recent publication in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene was picked up in an article on SciDevNet.
Our pharmaceutical monitoring effort in Kenya wins inaugural ACS Partners for Progress and Prosperity award
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. …
Special issue of AJTMH focuses on low quality medicines in the developing world
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.
Manuscript on Antimalarial Test Cards in press at American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygeine
Nick's paper now in press at Analytical Chemistry
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. …
Congratulations to Abigail Weaver, PhD!
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!
Baxter honors 2014 Young Investigators
"This accomplishment embodies Baxter's own priorities and commitment to expanding access to care," stated Dennis Jenke, one of Baxter's Distinguished Scientists.
Validation study published for FDA's CD3 device
Diet supplements spiked with banned pharmaceuticals are still on the shelves
Non-prescription diet pills may contain banned prescription drugs....
Pharmaceutical Alert page added
Some of the products we have analyzed do not contain active pharmaceutical ingredients and could be dangerous to patients.
Paper microscopes
Drug resistant malaria spreading in SE Asia
Gail Weaver honored with $2,000 Baxter Young Investigator Award
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…
Nicholas Myers wins fellowship to help identify substandard antibiotics
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…