Quinn Favret and Arnav Ramu at Troy HS in Michigan worked on a project to solve the problem of counterfeit drugs and came across the PAD project. We sent them some samples to show in their presentation. Good luck to these young problem solvers!
The national quality control lab for pharmaceuticals in Bangladesh is a busy site; the photo shows dissolution testing in progress. Prof. Lieberman visited in mid-March to discuss use of PADs as a component of risk-based quality screening. Although the lab in Dhaka is fully modern and another lab…
Manu Prakash has done it again--following up his $1 paper microscope with a hand-powered paper centrifuge that can spin down blood samples at a blistering 125,000 rpm. This piece in the Atlantic…
Nick's elevator pitch at the 2016 Micronutrient Formum in Cancun is the subject of an article posted at the UND College of Science website. Congratulations!
PAD project REU'er Muriel McClendon was recognized for her work in the summer of 2016.
On November 11, 2016, in Tampa, FL, Muriel McClendon placed fifth in the Chemistry Division at the ABRCMS Conference (Annual Biomedical Research Conference…
This blog focuses on new technologies with potential to impact global heath. The PAD project is highlighted in the 14 Nov. 2016 posting.
Nicholas Myers pitched the saltPAD at the Micronutrient Forum in Cancun Mexico, explaining how this simple paper device could help program managers monitor iodine nutrition. He won second prize, out of a field of 70 entrants from 18 countries. The pitch was repeated in 1 minute format at the gala…
Jamie Luther presented a poster at the October 12 MUACC meeting at the University of Illinios Urbana-Champaign and received a poster prize from the assembled analytical chemists. The poster described the "milkPAD" she is developing to detect adulteration of dairy milk, a bit of unsavory product manipulation…
See the COS web site for an article featuring…
Derek Lowe's blog "In the Pipeline" reports on a story about massive problems in regulatory oversight of drug approval in China.
A report in the Chinese newspaper Economic
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The BBC features interviews with Sproxil and mPedigree about the counterfeit drug problem in Africa.
Pills marked as hydrocodone contained fentanyl, an overdose of which was the cause of death determined in June by the Midwest medical examiner's office. Full report…
MITI Health was started by Stanford medical student Jessica Vernon as a way to provide high quality medicines to pharmacists in Kenya. The PAD project and AMPATH are partners with MITI Health; we help them conduct confirmatory assays on suspicious products. This KQED news piece describes how a…
Business Daily Africa reports on a whistleblower's claims that in exchange for bribes, the Pharmacy and Poisons board issued permits for non-registered suppliers to import low-quality drugs into Kenya between 2005 and 2011. The Chief Registrar is implicated in the claims. We'll be following this…
July 26, 2016 (Notre Dame, Ind.) — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent No. 9,354,181 to researchers at Saint Mary’s College and the University of Notre Dame…
Muriel Mcclendon (Chicago State University), Sarah Bliese (Hamline College), and Albert Vargas (UND) spent two weeks in Eldoret and Nairobi as part of the Analytical Chemistry REU program. Muriel worked on a quantitative paper test card for antibiotics and gave a presentation at Eldoret University,…
Congratulations to the VeriPAD team, which won the $25,000 social impact prize at CUNY's Zahn Innovation Center Business Plan competition. This team took the 12-lane PAD and developed a mobile phone application to help interpret the PAD results. Da…
US Patent 9,354,181, Analytical devices for detection of low-quality pharmaceuticals, was issued May 31, 2016, to Toni Barstis, Patrick Flynn, and Marya Lieberman.
Toni, Pat, and Marya are grateful to Allan Fanucci at Winstrom & Strawn LLP, who acted for us and provided most valuable…