Really happy to be awarded the UCL Bogue Fellowship, which will fund me to work at the Daniel Reker lab Duke University in North Carolina for 2 months this autumn! UCL School of Pharmacy Basit Research Group

Last Friday we had an awesome time at our first face-to-face COLOTAN network wide event in Leuven Thanks KU Leuven 🇧🇪for hosting us. See you next time in Parma Università di Parma 🇮🇹👋

#COLOTAN 3rd NWE ⭐ ESRs and supervisors together 🍵 ⭐ Dedicated #training 📝 ⭐ Visits to industrial partners (Eurofins CDMO and @JanssenEMEA) 💊 ⭐ Really incredible presentations! 🗣️ Looking forward to 🇮🇹 Parma. See you all soon!🤌

We are gradually edging closer to being a multi-planetary species, thanks to efforts by SpaceX Elon Musk. To support this goal, medical care in outer space must be radically transformed. Our latest Basit Research Group commentary explores how this can happen! doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpx…

🔊 Save the date! 🇪🇺 #MSCA's COLOTAN - ITN 3rd symposium is fast approaching ⚡️ ❓Do you wish to learn more about the effect of GI disorders on drug disposition? 📅 Join us on 27/01/2023 in 🇮🇹 Parma!🤌 The latest info will follow on #COLOTAN's page ⤵️ #EU_H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Great day celebrating #SOP180 UCL School of Pharmacy! Here is Abdul Basit kicking off the series sharing the history of the school and the Pharmaceutics department!

Check out the newly published paper by Abdul Basit and his team on Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors!

Congratulations to Abdul Basit for being awarded the Harrison Memorial Medal Award 2022 from Royal Pharmaceutical Society. It is a privilege to be a part of the Basit Research Group Phamily. Happy birthday! #RPSCelebrationofScience

*Registration is NOW OPEN*‼️ Join the 3rd edition of the COLOTAN symposium🎯👩🏼‍🔬"Gut disorders and possible impact on colonic drug targeting" Register here 👉 colotan-etn.eu/registration/ Check the program 👉 colotan-etn.eu/colotan-3rd-sy… Plus: new POSTER SESSION! ⭐️⭐️

The impact of #microplastics in placentas on microbiota in mother-infant pairs: "wide exposure of pregnant women and infants". Terrifying #plasticpollution. doi.org/10.1021/acs.es…

The role of microbiota in female fertility and infertility What are in your opinion the biggest threats to female fertility nowadays? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35147016/ #minervaginecologica #edizioni_minerva_medica #fertility #microbiota #woman #womanhealth #women #womenhealth

Zooming into the structure of the microbiome This month’s Genome Watch highlights how genome sequencing can be used to understand the strain-level diversity, evolution and spatial structure of the human microbiome, and inform therapeutic strategies. nature.com/articles/s4157…

I am very delighted to share our new review, and my first publication, on the future of colon-targeted drug delivery! 💊🎯✨ Thanks to @BasitResearchGroup and COLOTAN - ITN! #pharmaceutics #colon #drugdelivery

Pharma in Parma! 🧪 Thank you COLOTAN - ITN for the invitation and stunning to see the progress of all ESR’s! Can’t wait to fast forward and see the outcome of this project! We’ll have Alessia Favaron soon in our lab for her secondment! Grace Mille!!🤌🏻

I am happy to share our review article titled "Colonic drug delivery: Formulating the next generation of colon-targeted therapeutics", published in J Controlled Release Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Laura McCoubrey, Alessia Favaron, Mine Orlu, Abdul Basit, Basit Research Group, STEM

Wanna know more about what we are working on? What does COLOTAN even mean? What is the colon? How do we get drugs in the colon? 💊🎯 All these questions are answered in our project video 🎬 Check it out: colotan-etn.eu/what-are-the-c… #MSCA #H2020 #Researcher #phdlife #sciencefun

📌Registration for the *4th COLOTAN symposium* is now open! Don't miss this great opportunity to learn about Targeted Drug Delivery in the GI tract from the experts in the field 🎯🎶 ➡︎ Register today colotan-etn.eu/colotan-4th-sy… and spread the word!😄

My first paper on reproductive health was published in Reproductive BioMedicine Online Journal today! authors.elsevier.com/a/1ibWb5ErseB0… A great thanks to Prof Mine Orlu and Prof Abdul Basit. I hope this will mark a step towards a career dedicated to enhancing the health of women across the globe 🩷

Such a great day yesterday at the SoP Research Day! I won the best lecture (runner-up) award presenting my project on the interactions between the gut microbiota and drugs. Thanks to my supervisors Mine Orlu, Abdul Basit, the talented Basit Research Group and COLOTAN - ITN ! 🏆🌟🎯#UCL

New paper alert 📢 we report JAK inhibitors (tofacitinib, baricitinib, filgotinib) have a minor impact on the composition of gut microbiota based on calorimetric, optical density measurements, metagenomics next-generation sequencing sciencedirect.com/science/articl…