Departmental News

Dr. Tony Zhou, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy, is the recipient of the Emerging Scientist Award from The Aerosol Society in UK.

Purdue graduate student, Simseok Yuk, has been selected by the faculty of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy to receive the 2019 Dr. Herbert A. Lieberman Award. This award recognizes Simseok’s 2018-2019 leadership as the president of the AAPS Student Chapter as well as his efforts in serving as host for events such as technology presentations by representatives of national laboratories and pharmaceutical companies and completing the application work to receive a tier-one award in the Purdue Graduate Student Organization Grant Allocation (GSOGA).

The hills of Waterville Valley, NH were alive in June of 2019 with the sounds of science during the Preclinical Form and Formulation for Drug Discovery 2019 Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Co-chaired by Dr. Elizabeth Topp of Purdue University and Dr. Karthik Nagapudi of Genentech, this year’s theme was “The Role of Form and Formulation Development in Transforming a New Era of Molecules into Therapeutics”.

A National Institutes of Health SBIR Phase I/II grant worth up to $1.4 million was recently awarded to Monon Bioventures, LLC to develop better rescue kits for hypoglycemia. The grant will fund a collaboration with Purdue University’s Elizabeth Topp, a professor of industrial and physical pharmacy. The grant will support the pre-clinical development of novel derivatives of glucagon, the drug used in rescue kits.