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Dr Marie Pettit
Director of Medway Centre for Pharmaceutical Science, Associate Professor in Formulation Science
Dr Marie Pettit gained her PhD from the University of Greenwich in 2013 titled: ‘Towards the development of a multicomponent, nanoscale oral vaccine delivery system targeting infectious bursal disease (IBD)’. She then went on to study a PGCE at the University of Brighton before teaching science at secondary schools in the local area.
Marie returned to the University of Greenwich as a postdoctoral scientist working on formulation development for Veterinary Medicine under Professor John Mitchell. She was promoted to the manager of Medway Centre for Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2013 and has managed industrial contracts with five local pharmaceutical companies during this time, with large income generation. She specialises in analytical chemistry, formulation development of inhaled, parental, and oral medicines. Her group work to good laboratory practise (GLP) standards and perform pre-formulation characterisation of actives, stability testing of formulations, optimise API stability, dissolution and release optimisation, and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).
Marie continues to work closely with Medway Centre for Pharmaceutical Science colleagues Professor Steve Wicks and Professor Joshua Boateng.