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Arto Urtti is a professor of biopharmaceutics at the University of Helsinki and University of Eastern Finland. At the University of Helsinki he has headed the Centre for Drug Research within the Faculty of Pharmacy. He has also been the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Pharmaceutical…
The CRS India Local Chapter announces a call for abstracts for the 16th international conference on “Advances in Technology and Business Potential of New Drug Delivery Systems,” which will take place February 23–24, 2018, in Mumbai, India. The venue is Hotel Lalit, Sahar Airport Road, Andheri (East…
Saving Severely Injured Limbs in Military Settings
Figure 1. The graph illustrates the inverse relationship between the environmental chaos and the sophistication of treatment over the ensuing time course after a serious limb injury. This results in the need for a lightweight, easily deployable…
The annual CRS Nordic Local Chapter event of 2017 was a one-day symposium on “Drug Transporters,” which was organized backto-back with the symposium “30-years of Drug Delivery Research – In Honour of Professor Arto Urtti’s 60th Birthday.” The Nordic Chapter event gathered 60 participants and took…
It is still a pending issue for many “smart” nanocarriers endowed with a controlled and site-specific drug release mechanism to overcome the therapeutic efficacy and minimize therapy-associated side effects obtained by their older brothers, the golden benchmarked nonsensitive formulations.…
Introduction
Non-ionic surfactant vesicles (NISV), or “niosomes,” are synthetic bilayer vesicles typically formed by the self-assembly of non-ionic surfactants, cholesterol, and the addition of a charged species. NISV exhibit more advantages over liposomes, in terms of cost and stability, and…
