Dr Allan Cosslett
Senior Tutor and Lecturer
- cosslett@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 4987
- Fax:
- +44 (0)29 2087 4987
- 1.25B, Redwood Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NB
Overview
Qualifications
- PhD "Studies on the Stability of Lipid Emulsions in Total Parenteral Nutrition Admixtures", University of Wales (1991)
- BPharm (Hons) degree (1981), University of Wales
I am the manager of the Fresenius Kabi - Cardiff University Stability Assessment Unit
Biography
I have been employed at the Welsh School of Pharmacy since 1990 as co-manager (with the late Dr Michael I. Barnett) of the Fresenius Kabi stability assessment and research laboratory, and as a teaching expert in the field of sterile product formulation and manufacture in the undergraduate degree course.
Publications
We are currently unable to retrieve the list of publications. Visit our institutional repository.Teaching
- PH1121 Molecule to patient
- PH1122 The role of the pharmacist in professional practice
- PH2107 Formulation science
- PH3110 Optimisation of pharmaceutical care
- PH3114 Design, formulation and quality assurance of medicinal products
- PH3202 Research methodology
- PH4116 Pharmacy research or scholarship project
- PH4118 Pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacy practice and the patient
Member of the School's Drug Delivery & Microbiology Research Discipline.
Current areas of research
- Investigating the various aspects of physical and physico-chemical stability of parenteral nutrition admixtures
- The application and comparison of particle size analysis equipment
- Design and validation of methods and equipment for manufacturing sterile dosage forms and devices.
- Particulate contamination of intravenous devices and delivery systems.
- Effectiveness and safety of intravenous lipid emulsions as drug delivery systems.
- Examination of the effectiveness of intravenous filtration devices.