Respiratory Drug Delivery 2016

We are putting final preparations for RDD 2016 together. Please plan to stop by our posters and meet our graduate students and post-docs. Mandana Azimi will be presenting her poster entitled “Comparison of the In vitro Deposition of Nasonex® Nasal Spray Product in Two Realistic Nasal Airway Models”. Xiangyin Wei and Khanh Huynh will be presenting […]

Changes for the New Year

The New Year brings a number of changes in the research lab: After nearly 30 years at VCU and leading the Aerosol Research Group, we said farewell to Dr. Peter Byron. Pete has been a great supporter of my research, a good friend and we hope to still see him around the labs as he […]

SOP Research Day and Congratulations

Our research group  presented three posters at VCU School of Pharmacy Research Day on Oct 31st. Dr Hindle was busy evaluating all the posters as one of the “best poster” judges. The posters were entitled: Assessing the regional nasal deposition of Nasonex® using two realistic airway models, Mandana Azimi, Michael Hindle, P.Worth Longest Characterization of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine spray-dried […]

Summer and Fall Conferences

The Summer and Fall conference season has seen a number of poster and podium presentations including a trip to Orlando and the AAPS annual meeting for Dr Anubhav Kavirata Our collaborative efforts have been presented at the following conferences recently: Dr Longest presented recently at the American Thoracic Society International Conference 2015, in Denver, Colorado. The […]

Drs. Hindle and Longest feature in VCU Innovation Gateway Annual Report

Find out more about our aerosol drug delivery technology in the feature story in the VCU Innovation Gateway Annual Report. The report features a CFD image produced by Dr. Longest on the cover (at least our photo’s did not make the cover – see page 13 for Dr Hindle holding another inhaler !) The report can […]

New Paper Published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Congratulations to Dale Farkus on the publication of his paper entitled “Characterization of a New High-Dose Dry Powder Inhaler (DPI) Based on a Fluidized Bed Design”. The paper can be found at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10439-015-1335-2  

Departures and Arrivals

Good bye and good luck to Divya, who after almost a year working in the lab moved on to new adventures. Thanks for all your help !!! Hello and welcome to Hunter, who will be joining the group to work over the summer. Divya’s last day ….and once again no one wearing lab coats in […]

New paper published in Pharmaceutical Research

Check out our latest publication in Pharmaceutical Research. Its entitled “Validating CFD Predictions of Pharmaceutical Aerosol Deposition with In Vivo Data”. The lead author, Geng Tian, recently joined FDA after a successful period of postdoctoral work with Dr Longest. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11095-015-1695-1

RDD Europe 2015

Dr Hindle and Mandana Azimi traveled to Nice, France to present their work at the RDD Europe meeting. Dr Hindle presented a talk entitled “Towards Clinically Relevant In Vitro Testing of Locally Acting Nasal Spray Suspension Products”. The group also had a poster presentation entitled “Improving Aerosol Delivery in Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (NPPV) – […]

School of Engineering Research Report 2014

Check out the news of our continuing collaboration with VCU School of Engineering http://vcu.uberflip.com/i/282491/12