DRUG DELIVERY
HEIDELBERG

DRUG DELIVERY
HEIDELBERG

Welcome

to the department of

Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy

at the

Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology

of the University of Heidelberg

Our research focuses on finding innovative ways to transport drugs to where they are urgently needed. We face the exciting challenge of overcoming barriers such as the blood-brain barrier and effectively transporting drugs into the brain. Our goal is to make the impassable passable for drugs so that they can develop their full therapeutic effect.

Find out more about our range of services and key research areas here.

Prof. Gert Fricker

Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology

Dept. Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy

Prof. Gert Fricker IPMB Heidelberg Team Drug Delivery und Drug Targeting Heidelberg

Drug delivery und drug targeting

Our range of services

Research areas

  • Drug absorption and improvement of resorption
  • Colloidal drug carriers (liposomes, nanoparticles)
  • Drug transport across the blood-brain barrier
  • Depot dosage forms based on biodegradable polymers
  • Characterization of new biodegradable polymers
  • NIR spectroscopy in pharmaceutics

Laboratory equipment

  • Epithelial and endothelial cell culture systems
  • In-vitro models for drug transport (diffusion chambers etc.)
  • Spray drying and lyophilization of pharmaceutical products
  • Development and testing of conventional dosage forms



Analytical methods

  • Chromatography
  • UV/VIS photometry, fluorimetry
  • Thermal analysis (DSC)
  • Viscosity measurements (rheometer)
  • Protein electrophoresis and western blotting
  • PCR
  • Immunological detection methods
  • Radioactive analysis methods
  • NIR spectroscopy
  • Confocal laser scanning microscope
  • HPLC / LC-MS analysis
  • Particle size analysis

Director

Prof. Gert Fricker IPMB Heidelberg Team Drug Delivery und Drug Targeting Heidelberg

Prof. Dr. Gert Fricker

Dean of Academic Affairs

Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology
Dept. Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy
Im Neuenheimer Feld 329
69120 Heidelberg

Office hours (during lecture period)
Mi.13.00 – 15.00 h

Office

Teammitglied Drug Delivery und Drug Targeting in Heidelberg

Frau von Schischka

Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology
Dept. Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy
Im Neuenheimer Feld 329
69120 Heidelberg

Office hours
Mo. – Do.08.30 – 12.00 h
Fr.Geschlossen

Teaching staff

Implementation

Lecture 

Workshop

Practical course

Teaching staff

Implementation

Lecture 

Pharmacology / materials science (6th/7th sem.)

Pharmacology / Physical Pharmacy (3rd sem.)

Pharmacology / Biopharmacy (6th/7th sem.)

Lecture 

Pharmacology / materials science (5th/6th sem.)

Drug stability (5th/6th semester)

Lecture series on "pharmaceutical specific (1st semester)

Workshop

We are happy to receive cooperation requests.

Prof. Gert Fricker

Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology

Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy

Im Neuenheimer Feld 329

69120 Heidelberg

LATEST NEWS FROM OUR INSTITUTE

30.6.2023
Dissolving protein deposits in the brain

Tauopathien sind neurodegenerative Erkrankungen, bei denen sich sogenannte Tau-Proteine im Gehirn ansammeln. Das Tau-Protein ist ein wichtiges Strukturprotein, das…

15. – 17.5.2023
BARRIER- AND TRANSPORTER-DAYS, BAD HERRENALB

Die Arbeitsgruppe von Prof. Fricker veranstaltete zum 22. Mal die „Barrier- and Transporter-Days“ in Bad Herrenalb bei Karlsruhe. 92…

11.5.2023
SUCCESS IN THE HEI-INNOVATION COMPETITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG

Junior-Prof. Dr. Philipp Uhl gewann mit seinem Team „Rovance“ (Florian Umstätter, Julia Werner, Eric Mühlberg, Tyra Christian und Walter…