Pharmaceutical Engineering
Research in this area addresses the emerging problems of pharmaceutical production with special emphasis on the purification, formulation and administration of active pharmaceutical products, as well as the development of novel healthcare engineering approaches.
Research projects include:
- development of drug delivery devices in skin and intervertebral disc
- controlled release PLGA based biopolymer particles
- population balance and CFD modelling of pharmaceutical crystallizers, bioreactors and downstream process units
- crystallisation systems engineering
- experimental measurements of flow and turbulence in chemical reaction vessels
- process analytical and quality-by-design technologies
- pharmaceutical process control
- preparation of high yielding process routes for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals
- production of pharmaceutical powders for pulmonary delivery by spray freeze drying
- production of drug delivery systems based on multiple emulsions and other biocompatible micro- and nano-particles