The Royal Society of Medicine was the venue for the 20th Horners lecture delivered by Dr Matthew Burke, Head of Drug delivery at GSK, which focused on the use of polymers in drug and medicine delivery applications. Examples of this are stents, inhalers, sutures, and medicinal capsules. A very interesting and well illustrated presentation which was, in places, extremely thought provoking. In the questions that followed it became evident that polymers used to control the release of medication, having passed through the body and into the sewage system cannot easily be recovered and generally end up in the discharge to our rivers and eco-systems!
The lecture was followed by an excellent buffet supper.
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