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Dr Dan Fei

Job: Senior Lecturer

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: Leicester School of Pharmacy

Research group(s): Pharmaceutical Technologies Group

Address: Âé¶¹Ó°Ôº, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH.

T: +44 (0)116 257 7122

E: DFei@dmu.ac.uk

W: /pharmacy

 

Personal profile

Dr Dan Fei is a senior lecturer in Pharmaceutics in the School of Pharmacy, Âé¶¹Ó°Ôº. She gained her PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Aston University. Dr Fei was later employed as Medway Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Pfizer Global R & D (in collaboration with the University of Greenwich) in Sandwich and then Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aston University prior to joining the Âé¶¹Ó°Ôº as an academic staff.

Dr Fei now specialises in the development of drug delivery systems using nanotechnology and biodegradable polymers; biodegradable polymeric thin films for drug delivery; thermal analysis for pharmaceutical materials characterisation; stability characterisation of freeze dried pharmaceutical materials.

Research group affiliations

Publications and outputs

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Research interests/expertise

  • Development of drug delivery systems using nanotechnology and biodegradable polymers
  • Biodegradable polymeric thin films for drug delivery
  • Thermal analysis for pharmaceutical materials characterisation
  • Stability characterisation of freeze dried pharmaceutical materials

Areas of teaching

  • Pharmaceutics
  • Formulations
  • Extemporaneous Dispensing Techniques
  • Pharmaceutical Calculations

Qualifications

  • BSc
  • PhD

Courses taught

  • Pharmacy (MPharm)
  • Pharmaceutical and Cosmetics Science (BSc)
  • Quality by Design (MSc)

Conference attendance

BPC 2009 British Pharmaceutical Conference, Manchester UK, two poster presentations:

  • Title: The study of the degradation of poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) films by DRS, DSC and SEM Authors: Dan Fei, Irina Ermolina, Geoff Smith
  • Title: Preliminary evaluation of the Binding Capacity of Pullulan with Ibuprofen Granules Authors: Dan Fei, Amos Abioye, Benjamin Dalby

Consultancy work

Area of expertise:

  • Development of drug delivery systems using nanotechnology and biodegradable polymers;
  • Biodegradable polymeric thin films for drug delivery;
  • Thermal analysis for pharmaceutical materials characterisation;
  • Stability characterisation of freeze dried pharmaceutical materials.

Professional esteem indicators

Research Grants Refereeing:

  •  MRC Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board (MCMB) (Feb. 2011)

Areas of expertise

  • Development of drug delivery systems using nanotechnology and biodegradable polymers
  • Biodegradable polymeric thin films for drug delivery
  • Thermal analysis for pharmaceutical materials characterisation
  • Stability characterisation of freeze dried pharmaceutical materials

Research Grants Refereeing

  • MRC Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board (MCMB) (Feb. 2011)