Alessia is delighted to have won the best lecture (runner-up) award at the SoP Research Day and expresses that the best part was sharing the achievement with her great friend Nidhi Seegobin: “There is never a moment when we stop encouraging each other to aim for the best in ourselves and our work, and this was another wonderful proof of ...

What an incredible experience it was for Alessia Favaron (COLOTAN ESR9) to develop her business idea in “Explore your Entrepreneurial Idea” program at UCL! She won 2nd place with her HerBioma venture, dedicated to balancing women’s hormonal health with microbiome science. Congratulations to Nidhi Seegobin who was a finalist in the program, and Ieva Karvelyte who won 3rd place!  

Development of a canine artificial colonic mucus model for drug diffusion studies V. Barmpatsalou, M. Tjakra, L. Li, I.R. Dubbelboer, E. Karlsson, B. Pedersen Lomstein, C.A.S. Bergström Abstract Colonic mucus is a key factor in the colonic environment because it may affect drug absorption. Due to the similarity of human and canine gastrointestinal physiology, dogs are an established preclinical species ...

Solidification and oral delivery of biologics to the colon – A review by COLOTAN researcher Katharina Kopp with the supervision of Lien Saerens (Eurofins), Jody Voorspoels (Eurofins) and Guy Van den Mooter (KU Leuven) that has been published recently in the European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Abstract The oral delivery of biologics such as therapeutic proteins, peptides and oligonucleotides for ...

Subrata is the Chair and Head of Medicine, College of Medicine and Health at UCC since March 2021. He is also Deputy Director of the APC. Subrata did his doctoral research on the immunology of IBD at University of Edinburgh where he was appointed as faculty. Between 2002 and 2008 he was Prof and Chair of Gastroenterology at Imperial College ...

Alexandra Teleki is an Associate Professor and SciLifeLab Fellow in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology and Drug Development at the Department of Pharmacy at Uppsala University, Sweden. She received her MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden and her PhD in Mechanical and Process Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Then she joined the Formulation and Application R&D department at DSM ...