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.