Left: Dr Patrick Hui Right: Prof. Chi-wai Kan
Dr Patrick Hui, Associate Professor of ITC and Prof Kan Chi-wai, Professor of ITC, recently coauthored a paper published in Carbohydrate Polymers (Top 5% journal in the categories of Polymer Science, Chemistry (Organic) and Chemistry (Applied) according to Journal Citation Reports 2019 (JCR 2019), Web of Science), which is a top-tier Elsevier journal with an impact factor of 7.182. Their paper, "Drug delivery system of dual-responsive PF-127 hydrogel with polysaccharide-based nano-conjugate for textile-based transdermal therapy", discusses the development of a Pluronic F-127 based dual-responsive (pH/temperature) hydrogel drug delivery system that involves a polysaccharide-based nano-conjugate of hyaluronic acid and chitosan oligosaccharide lactate. The system is applied to load a traditional Chinese medicine called Cortex Moutan to treat eczema. The study immensely contributes to the literature on drug delivery with the use of herbal medicine.
S. Chatterjee, P.C.L. Hui*, E. Wat, C.W. Kan, P.C. Leung, and Wenyi Wang, “Drug delivery system of dual-responsive PF-127 hydrogel with polysaccharide-based nano-conjugate for textile-based transdermal therapy”, Carbohydrate Polymers, 2020, 236, 116074; DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2020.116074
