TVIS technology incorporated into School of Pharmacy teaching activities

Through Vial Impedance Spectroscopy (TVIS) is a novel process analytical technology that has been developed by De Montfort University (in collaboration with industrial partners, GEA Pharma Systems) for monitoring the freeze-drying cycle, a process which is used in the production of biopharmaceutical products, such as mono-clonal antibodies.

In 2017, a cohort of seven final year projects students on the Masters of Pharmacy and BSc in Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Science we assigned individual projects to research and develop a new method for studying the collapse potential of a pharmaceutical formulation intended for freeze-drying.

The industrial focus of these final year projects will give these students an opportunity to engage with some of the real world challenges faced by pharmaceutical industry while exploring some of the novel solutions that are being developed in collaborative R&D projects in with he university is engaged.