Very 1st presentation by Liam DeVrieze at a scientific meeting (#BLT meeting at the Belgian seaside). "In vitro structure-activity relationship determination and forensic case series of emerging 2-benzylbenzimidazole opioids". 👍👍👍 #proudpromotor Work currently under review.

🔍 naar een gemotiveerd en getalenteerd iemand, met een bijzondere interesse in een onderzoeksveld op de kruising van (forensische) toxicologie en farmacologie, voor een PhD applicatie bij het FWO (1/3/2024). Vacaturebericht met profiel via tinyurl.com/38htaaaj. Dank voor RT!

NPS Discovery @ CFSRE István Ujváry 🇭🇺 ⚗️ 📚 🖥️🏳️ Cayman Chemical In at least some of the Dublin overdoses N-pyrrolidino protonitazene (aka '#protonitazepyne') may/would be involved 👇. irishtimes.com/health/2023/11… x.com/vickicraik/sta… 👉 🚨☠️ In our assays this substance is ~25x more potent than fentanyl ☠️🚨! [unpubl data by Liam DeVrieze]

🚨 A #minisymposium dedicated to synthetic opioids will be held at UGent Pharmacy on Apr 30, (13:45-18:00), prior to the #BLT The Toxicological Society of Belgium and Luxembour General Assembly. Speakers: - Meritxell Canals - EMCDDA - Marthe Vandeputte - Mike Baumann - Matteo Marti - Bruno De Geest 📌 your 🗓 & stay 📻

The minisymposium on new synthetic opioids is followed by the #BLT General Assembly. Amongst the presenters is Liam DeVrieze, UGent Pharmacy, presenting on the detection & (analytical & pharmacological (@ MOR)) of N-desethyletonitazene, identified by a Swiss drug checking service.

I’m excited to announce my first first-author paper 🎉 - 📖 in Arch. Toxicol. “In vitro structure-activity relationships and forensic case series of emerging 2-benzylbenzimidazole ‘nitazene’ opioids” Result from a ⭐️ collab with CFSRE NMS Labs 📩 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🗞️Publication alert! Testing the performance of the first commercially available nitazene test strips (BTNX, Rapid ResponseTM) for drug checking purposes. Just out in Harm Reduct. J.📄👇 doi.org/10.1186/s12954… 🙏Christophe Stove Marthe Vandeputte

🎤 presentation by Liam DeVrieze @ #TIAFT2024: "In vitro structure-activity relationships and forensic case series of emerging 2-benzylbenzimidazole opioids" 👉 Fri Sep 6, Session 12 👉 Publ. Sep '24 in #ArchToxicol: link.springer.com/article/10.100… 👉 Collabor. 🤝 w. NPS Discovery @ CFSRE 4/11

Poster (NPS P-28) by Liam De Vrieze @ #TIAFT2024: "Detection and characterization of N-desethyl etonitazene in a powder sample from a Swiss drug checking service" 👉 Just out in J Pharm Biomed Anal: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 👉 Collaboration with Manuela Monti et al. 🤝. 8/11

If you are at #TIAFT2024 come and check out my poster (DIV P-16) --> "Characterization of serotonin transporter modulators employing a new in vitro activity-based assay" --> The novel bioassay where transporter and receptor go hand in hand 🤝 TIAFT

Another new nitazene opioid on the block💊. Come check out my poster (NPS P-28) at #TIAFT2024 to know more about the identification of N-desethyl etonitazene in a powder sample acquired from a swiss drug checking service 🔬🆔. 🤝 work with LiU & University of Basil

🙂 to be at #SOFT2024 in St. Louis, joined by Marthe Vandeputte & Liam DeVrieze. Our contributions: 👩🏼‍🔬 Marthe: orals on new synthetic opioids + co-chair of 'entering post-fentanyl era?' workshop 🧑‍🔬 Liam: oral + poster on #nitazenes 🧙‍♀️ Me: orals on semi-synthetic cannabinoids & PEth 👇

Liam DeVrieze @ #SOFT2024: 🎃 poster on #nitazene test strips ('des'nitazenes not recognized) 🎃 presentation on the pharmacological characterization & forensic case series of emerging 'nitazene' opioids 🎃 2024 open access 📄: 💀harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… 💀link.springer.com/article/10.100…