Meetings

British Pharmaceutical Conference 2006

Hannah Pike, Gemma Cleveland and Dawn Connelly share coverage of awards

The 2006 British Pharmaceutical Conference and Exhibition “Personalised medicine in healthcare” took place at Manchester International Convention Centre from 4 to 6 September

BPC 2006 reports

Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences commends five posters

Five researchers had their scientific posters commended by the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and were awarded a prize at the British Pharmaceutical Conference. Each winner was given a certificate and a cheque for £100.

The winners were:

· Hassan Ghonaim, from the department of pharmacy and pharmacology, University of Bath, for his poster entitled “Design of lipospermine non-viral gene delivery vectors for self-assembly DNA nanoparticle formulations”

· Tristan Learoyd, from the inhalation technology research team at Aston University for “Spray-dried w/o/w double emulsions can generate respirable powders for sustained drug delivery”

· Rita Ramos from the School of Pharmacy, University of London, for “Isothermal methods to investigate the structural relaxation of amorphous materials”

· Marco Cespi from the School of Pharmacy and Chemistry at Liverpool John Moores University for “The influence of alcohol on aspirin release from hypromellose matrix tablets”

· George Cathcart from Queen’s University, Belfast, School of Pharmacy, for “Solid phase synthesis and biological screening of N-mercaptomide template-based Pseudomonas elastase (LasB) inhibitors as putative antibiofilm compounds”.