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Dr Dan Fei

Job: Senior Lecturer

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: Leicester School of Pharmacy

Research group(s): Pharmaceutical Technologies Group

Address: 51Âþ»­, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH.

T: +44 (0)116 257 7122

E: DFei@dmu.ac.uk

W: /pharmacy

 

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Personal profile

Dr Dan Fei is a senior lecturer in Pharmaceutics in the School of Pharmacy, 51Âþ»­. She gained her PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Aston University. Dr Fei was later employed as Medway Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Pfizer Global R & D (in collaboration with the University of Greenwich) in Sandwich and then Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aston University prior to joining the 51Âþ»­ as an academic staff.

Dr Fei now specialises in the development of drug delivery systems using nanotechnology and biodegradable polymers; biodegradable polymeric thin films for drug delivery; thermal analysis for pharmaceutical materials characterisation; stability characterisation of freeze dried pharmaceutical materials.

Research group affiliations

Publications and outputs


  • dc.title: Molecularly imprinted polymers: Promising advanced materials for in vivo sensing. dc.contributor.author: Akhtar, Samir; Fei, Dan; Piletsky, Sergey; Ge, Yi

  • dc.title: Detection of [Ca²+]i Changes in Sub-Plasma Membrane Microdomains in a Single Living Cell by an Optical Fiber-based Nanobiosensor. dc.contributor.author: Wanga, Shenqi; Ye, Feng; Lang, Xiaoling; Fei, Dan; Ge, Yi; Turner, Anthony P F

  • dc.title: Highly Ordered and Double-Shelled Hollow Silica Supports for Advanced Immobiliaton of Enzymes dc.contributor.author: Cao, Shunsheng; Fang, Long; Zhao, Z.; Fei, Dan; Ge, Yi; Piletsky, S; Turner, Anthony P F

  • dc.title: Smart Molecularly Imprinted Polymers dc.contributor.author: Fei, Dan; Wang, Shengqi; Butler, Benjamin; Ge, Yi

  • dc.title: Advanced Nanoparticles in Medical Biosensors dc.contributor.author: Li, Songjun; Fei, Dan; Cimorra,Christian; Ge, Yi

  • dc.title: Nanomedicine: Hyper-expectation and dawning realisation. dc.contributor.author: Bates, F.; Fei, Dan; Wang, Shengqi; Ge, Yi

  • dc.title: Nanomedicine: Revolutionary interdiscipline dc.contributor.author: Bates, F.; Fei, Dan; Wang, Shengqi; Ge, Yi

  • dc.title: A study of the degradation of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) films by DRS, DSC and SEM. dc.contributor.author: Fei, Dan; Ermolina, I.; Smith, Geoff

  • dc.title: A pH-responsive, low crosslinked, molecularly imprinted insulin delivery system. dc.contributor.author: Li, Songjun; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Ge, Yi; Fei, Dan

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Research interests/expertise

  • Development of drug delivery systems using nanotechnology and biodegradable polymers
  • Biodegradable polymeric thin films for drug delivery
  • Thermal analysis for pharmaceutical materials characterisation
  • Stability characterisation of freeze dried pharmaceutical materials

Areas of teaching

  • Pharmaceutics
  • Formulations
  • Extemporaneous Dispensing Techniques
  • Pharmaceutical Calculations

Qualifications

  • BSc
  • PhD

Courses taught

  • Pharmacy (MPharm)
  • Pharmaceutical and Cosmetics Science (BSc)
  • Quality by Design (MSc)

Conference attendance

BPC 2009 British Pharmaceutical Conference, Manchester UK, two poster presentations:

  • Title: The study of the degradation of poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) films by DRS, DSC and SEM Authors: Dan Fei, Irina Ermolina, Geoff Smith
  • Title: Preliminary evaluation of the Binding Capacity of Pullulan with Ibuprofen Granules Authors: Dan Fei, Amos Abioye, Benjamin Dalby

Consultancy work

Area of expertise:

  • Development of drug delivery systems using nanotechnology and biodegradable polymers;
  • Biodegradable polymeric thin films for drug delivery;
  • Thermal analysis for pharmaceutical materials characterisation;
  • Stability characterisation of freeze dried pharmaceutical materials.

Professional esteem indicators

Research Grants Refereeing:

  •  MRC Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board (MCMB) (Feb. 2011)

Areas of expertise

  • Development of drug delivery systems using nanotechnology and biodegradable polymers
  • Biodegradable polymeric thin films for drug delivery
  • Thermal analysis for pharmaceutical materials characterisation
  • Stability characterisation of freeze dried pharmaceutical materials

Research Grants Refereeing

  • MRC Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board (MCMB) (Feb. 2011)