Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Profile

Qualifications

BPharm, MSc, PhD

Internal memberships / posts

Facilitator for inter-professional learning

External memberships

Registered pharmacist with the South African Pharmacy Council
RPSGB Academic Pharmacy Group

Key teaching responsibilities

Level 1:  Basic mathematics 
Level 2:  basic laboratory techniques in the preparation of dosage forms, formulation of drugs into dosage forms
Level 3:  formulation of drugs into dosage forms

Key research interests

Protein and peptide delivery via the oral and nasal route with chitosan and chitosan derivatives.
Oral and nasal vaccine delivery with micro- and nanoparticulate systems.

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications before 2006

Van der Merwe SM, Verhoef JC, Kotze AF & Junginger HE, Chitosan and trimethylated chitosan as polymeric absorption enhancers for improved mucosal delivery of peptide drugs,  European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 5, 225-235, 2004.

Van der Merwe SM, Verhoef JC, Kotze AF & Junginger HE, N-trimethyl chitosan chloride (TMC) as absorption enhancer in oral peptide drug delivery.  Development and characterisation of minitablet and granule formulations,  European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 5, 85–91, 2004.