Projects

Projects of the Institute for Pharma Technology and Biotechnology

Our highlights

Biologics
A new generation of medicines that require new solutions.
Intelligent drug formulation
Martin Kuentz and his students are predicting solubility and formulation composition to reduce animal testing.
Precision pharmaceuticals
Predicting the right doses of the right drugs at the right times.

All projects in alphabetical order

A new dynamic light scattering technique to analyze dispersions
Introduction of a new modulated 3D cross-correlated dynamic light scattering instrument to enable product analytics of aggregating colloids and concentrated dispersions
A race against time
Martin Kuentz is working on a reliable lipid-based system to transport poorly soluble drugs in dissolved form in the gastrointestinal tract.
Bio-enabling formulations
Research and development on bio-enabling formulations as part of the EU-project PEARRL
EASY
Easy Assessment of SolubilitY with high efficiency second harmonic light scattering
FASS
Fast and Accurate Solubility for Sustainability. A disruptive technology to revolutionise solubility testing.
InPharma
InPharma has the goal of eliminating animals from the development of new oral drug formulations (EU funds MSCA-H2020 EID InPharma)
Intestinal drug absorption
Bio-conjugation combined with efflux in the enterocyte determines intestinal drug absorption
Robot assistance in the laboratory
HLS robot system enables reliable studies to be done on highly sensitive biomolecules.

Institute for Pharma Technology and Biotechnology

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School of Life Sciences
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