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Drug Delivery Australia (DDA) 2015, “Recent Advances in Drug Delivery Technology” was the 9th annual meeting of the CRS Australian Local Chapter, held on November 19 and 20 at St. Leo’s College, University of Queensland in Brisbane. The meeting…
November 24, 2015, was a day of rheology at the School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, Dunedin, when the invited speakers and 35 participants came together for the combined workshop of the New Zealand and Australian CRS chapters, “Pharmaceutical Rheology—Principles and Applications.” With this…
Introduction
During autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), the body incorrectly recognizes and attacks “self ” tissues. Conventional clinical therapies for MS employ broad immunosuppression, which has provided important benefits for…
Macromolecular prodrugs (MP), or polymer–drug conjugates, are successful tools of drug delivery investigated broadly toward optimization of pharmacokinetics of drugs.1 Specific advantage is gained when, for example, the polymer increases solubility of the drug or aids in localizing an enhanced…
I went to an art auction last night with the theme of moths. Why moths? A friend set up MothNet as a citizen science project to engage the public in science through discovering the beauty and importance of moths (twitter.com/mothNetNZ). I learned that most of New Zealand’s moths occur nowhere else…
