The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has announced three recipients of its 2014–2015 Global Fellowship Awards. One of the recipients of the $30,000 fellowship, Ahmed Shalash of Alexandria University in Alexandria, Egypt, is researching carriers for dry powder inhaler formulations.
According to USP, “The research deals with investigation of the role of carrier surface roughness. Under the supervision of professor of pharmaceutics Dr. Nawal Khalafallah, the ultimate goal of the project is development of characterization techniques that express performance and are suitable for routine quality control of dry powder inhaler products. The possibility of replacing lactose with other carriers will also be studied.”
The USP Global Fellowship Program was established in 1981 and has awarded almost $4 million to 200 researchers.
Read the USP press release.
