{"id":150527,"date":"2019-05-31T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=150527"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T21:04:05","slug":"anand-gupta-sighted-for-cost-saving-process-in-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/05\/anand-gupta-sighted-for-cost-saving-process-in-cancer-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Anand Gupta Cited for Cost-Saving Process in Cancer Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Anand<\/a>
Anand Gupta accepts his scholarship check from Howard Stamato, Associate Director of Bristol-Myers Squibb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association for Science and Technology (NJPhAST), and its corporate sponsors recently\u00a0awarded Ph.D. candidate and graduate research assistant \u00c3nand Gupta with a 2019 Student Scholarship in recognition of his research. It is the first time a UConn student has received this award.\u00a0The annual scholarship is highly competitive and an important part of a forum that promotes discussion, continuing education and the exchange of ideas on advances in pharmaceutical sciences and technology.<\/p>\n

Gupta’s research<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Anand<\/a>Gupta’s poster \u201cFormulation and characterization of curcumin loaded polymeric micelles produced via <\/em>continuous processing using Co-axial jet in Co-flow technology\u201d\u00a0illustrates process optimization using Curcumin as a model drug for his research project which is geared towards creating anti-cancer polymeric nanoparticles using this innovative technology developed in Dr. Diane Burgess\u2019 laboratory at UConn.<\/p>\n

“Most\u00a0pharmaceutical companies\u00a0depend heavily\u00a0on labor-intensive small batch manufacturing, 50% of which fail to meet quality and rest are combined to form a larger batch with barely passable quality,” says Gupta. \u00a0“This inefficient process not only causes billions of loss in dollar value and low-quality product but also drug shortages for years.”\u00a0Gupta\u2019s research points to a way to continuously and consistently manufacture lipid\/polymer-based nanoparticles using co-axial flow technology.<\/p>\n

Helping patients fight cancer – the ultimate goal<\/strong><\/p>\n

The product can be used as an anti-cancer injectable, a treatment option for cancer patients.\u00a0Gupta’s research helps progress the field of pharmaceuticals by optimizing a fully automatic nanoparticle-drug manufacturing platform that solves the shortcomings of the traditional method. The economical yet high-quality anti-cancer drug products produced via this technology could potentially help millions of cancer patients globally.<\/p>\n

NJPhAST meeting photos via Simerdeep Singh Gupta, Ph.D., Teeva Pharmaceuticals.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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