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 ...

AMIN ROSTAMI-HODJEGAN, PhD, FCP, FAAPS, FJSSX, FBPS Professor of Systems Pharmacology and Director of Centre for Applied Pharmacokinetic Research (CAPKR), University of Manchester, UK & SVP of R&D, Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), Certara, Princeton, USA The Institute of Scientific Information (ISI, Clativate) listed Amin as one of the world’s most highly cited researchers (under ‘Pharmacology & Toxicology’) in 2017. Amin ...

John F. Cryan is Professor & Chair, Dept. of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork and was appointed Vice President for Research & Innovation in 2021.  He is also a Principal Investigator in the APC Microbiome Ireland Institute. His research is focused on the neurobiology of stress related disorders and the mechanisms underlying microbiome-brain interactions across the lifespan. Prof. Cryan has ...

Dr. HDR Vincent Jannin is Director R&D and Head of Capsule Application Lab Services, Lonza Capsules & Health Ingredients. He joined Lonza Pharma & Biotech in 2019. Previously, he held diverse positions up to Research Director – Pharmaceuticals at Gattefossé (1998-2018). He was also lecturer at Lyon University (CPE Lyon) from 2003 to 2019 where he taught formulation sciences. Vincent ...

Pedro, COLOTAN Ph.D. Researcher at J&J Johnson Innovative Medicine, participated in the 2023 Johnson & Johnson Global Science Symposium, where Ph.D. and Postdoctoral fellows, from all parts of the world, gathered in Beerse (Belgium), between October 17th and 19th. He was awarded the “Best Outstanding Talk”, amongst all selected Ph.D. and Postdoctoral participants, for his oral presentation titled: “Human organotypic ...