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Medicines Research Unit

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Reseach within Aston Pharmacy School is focussed upon the effectiveness of drug therapies from dosage form design to patient application. Our research embraces pharmaceutical technology, drug delivery, therapeutics assessment and cost effective, evidence-based medicines management.

The key medicine research areas are drug delivery and evidence-based practice. Therefore, Aston Pharmacy School has researchers with strong expertise in pharmaceutical sciences, drug delivery, social and behavioural science, health services management and professional services development.

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The Aston Medication Adherence Study (AMAS) in being carried out in conjunction with the Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust (HoBtPCT).

Our key researches and their research interests are summarised below:

Dr Raj K. Singh Badhan
Dr Joseph Bush
  • Public Health
  • Health inequalities
  • Health care policy
Dr Anthony R Cox
Dr Darren Flower
Dr Andrew Ingham
  • Freeze drying
  • Frozen state storage
  • Protein therapeutic storage

 

Dr Chris A Langley
  • Pharmacy Education
  • Primary & Secondary Care

 

Dr Deborah Lowry
Dr Afzal Mohammed
  • Delivery of bioactive molecules
  • BCS class II drugs

 

Dr Defang Ouyang - Research
  • Computational Drug
  • Delivery Drug Solubulity
Prof Yvonne Perrie
  • Formulation Engineering of Vaccines
  • Solubility & delivery of bioactive molecules
  • Pharmacy Education

 

Prof Carl H Schwalbe
  • X-ray crystallography
  • Physico-chemical properties of drugs