CRS Outstanding Oral Drug Delivery Award

Co-sponsored by Banner

CRITERIA

• Abstract must relate specifically to oral drug delivery
• Significant and original contribution within the scope of the Controlled Release Society
• Ground-breaking research of outstanding quality
• Presenting author must be a member of the Controlled Release Society

SELECTION PROCESS
The Oral Drug Delivery Award Committee will make the selection of the awardee.

AWARD
The recipient will receive:

• $1,500 Award
• Complimentary Annual Meeting and Exposition Registration
• Plaque
• Award Winner to Give a Presentation at the 36th CRS Annual Meeting & Exposition

NOTIFICATION
Awardees will be notified by April 30, 2009.

2008 CRS Outstanding Oral Drug Delivery Paper Award
Vincent Malaterre is a French national and graduate of the University of Strasbourg, France, in pharmaceutical sciences. He later obtained an engineering degree in chemical and pharmaceutical processing from the Ecole National Supérieure des Industries Chimiques, Nancy, France. In 2006, he joined a Ph.D. student program at Novartis Pharma AG with the University of Geneva. His current research work is in the field of oral osmotically driven controlled release formulations.

The paper: Influence of the hydration kinetics and the viscosity balance on the drug release performance of push-pull osmotic systems