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Allan Cosslett

Dr Allan Cosslett

(he/him)

Senior Tutor and Lecturer

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Email
Cosslett@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 74987
Campuses
Redwood Building, Floor 1, Room 1.25B, 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

Publication

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1990

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Research

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.

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

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.