Dr Laura Watersl.waters@hud.ac.uk | 01484 472190
Laura completed her PhD at the University of Greenwich in the pharmaceutical research department of Medway Sciences. She joined the University of Huddersfield in 2003 as a lecturer in pharmaceutical science and is currently the Course Leader for the MSci and BSc (Hons) Pharmaceutical Sciences. Laura is heavily involved in the RSC, current Chair of the local section, a Benevolent Volunteer Visitor and a former member of Council. She is a member of the RSC, a member of the APS, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a National Public Engagement Ambassador (NCCPE).
Laura has an active research group investigating phenomena at the interface of chemistry and pharmaceutics, developing analytical techniques, characterising chemical interactions and enhancing formulations, all funded through external sources. Her work in the area of public engagement has lead to several recent public lectures and media presentations.
In 2011 Laura was awarded the JPAG Analytical Science Award for her pharmaceutical research, the British Science Association Darwin Award for public engagement and the Intelligent Formulation Award for the promotion of formulation.
Development of quantitative structure activity relationships for new chemical entities through the use of calorimetry.
Improvement of chromatographic techniques in pharmaceutical preformulation.
Development of novel pharmaceutical formulations.
Waters, L., Dennis, L., Bibi, A. and Mitchell, J. (2013) ‘Surfactant and temperature effects on paraben transport through silicone membranes’ Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces . ISSN 09277765
Waters, L (2012) ‘Titration Calorimetry of Surfactant-Drug Interactions: Micelle Formation and Saturation Studies’ Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics , 53, pp. 36-41. ISSN 0021-9614
Waters, L (2012) ‘pH effects in micellar liquid chromatographic analysis for determining partition coefficients for a series of pharmaceutically related compounds’ Current Pharmaceutical Analysis , 8 (3), pp. 272-277. ISSN 1573-4129
Shahzad, Y. and Waters, L. (2011) ‘Micelle-Water Partition Coeffcients: A potential alternative to octanol-water partition coefficients for pharmaceutical compounds’ Swiss Pharma , 33 (10), p. 35. ISSN 0251-1673
Hussain, T., Waters, L. and Parkes, G. (2011) ‘Pharmaceutical Analysis: Drug-micelle interactions’ Swiss Pharma , 33 (10), p. 36. ISSN 0251-1673
Waters, L., Bedford, S. and Parkes, G. (2011) ‘Controlled Microwave Processing Applied to the Pharmaceutical Formulation of Ibuprofen’ AAPS PharmSciTech , 12 (4), pp. 1038-1043. ISSN 1530-9932
Waters, L., Bedford, S., Parkes, G. and Mitchell, J. (2010) ‘Influence of lipophilicity on drug–cyclodextrin interactions: A calorimetric study’ Thermochimica Acta , 511 (1-2), pp. 102-106. ISSN 00406031
Waters, L (2010) ‘Micellar Chromatographic Partition Coefficients - an Alternative to Tradition’ Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology , 62, pp. 1211-1212. ISSN 0022-3573
Waters, L. and Kasprzyk-Hordern, B. (2010) ‘Micellar chromatographic determination of partition coefficients and associated thermodynamic data for pharmaceutical compounds’ Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry , 102 (1), pp. 343-347. ISSN 1388-6150
Bedford, S. and Waters, L. (2009) ‘The application of microwaves to pharmaceutical formulation’ Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology , 61 (S1), p. A54-A55. ISSN 0022-3573
Waters, L., Naz, S. and Hemming, K. (2008) ‘Calorimetric investigations of the hydrolytic degradation for a series of ?-sultams’ Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry , 93 (2), pp. 339-342. ISSN 14182874
Waters, L. and Pavlakis, E. (2007) ‘In vitro controlled drug release from loaded microspheres - dose regulation through formulation’ Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences , 10 (4), pp. 464-472. ISSN 1482-1826
Waters, L., Leharne, S., Mitchell, J. and Hanrahan, J. (2007) ‘Determination of micelle/water partition coefficients and associated thermodynamic data for dialkyl phthalate esters’ Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry , 90 (1), pp. 283-288. ISSN 1388-6150
Waters, L., Leharne, S. and Mitchell, J. (2005) ‘Saturation determination of micellar systems using isothermal titration calorimetry’ Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry , 80 (1), pp. 43-47. ISSN 1388-6150
Beezer, A., Hills, A., Orchard, J., Willson, R., Hofelich, T., Beaudin, J., Wolf, G., Baitalow, F., Gaisford, S., Lane, R., Buckton, G., Phipps, M., O’Neill, M., Winneke, R., Schmitt, E., Hansen, L., O’Sullivan, D., Parmar, M., Morris, A., Kierstan, K., Deal, R., Waters, L., Hadgraft, J., Mitchell, J. and Connor, J. (2001) ‘The imidazole catalysed hydrolysis of triacetin: an inter- and intra-laboratory development of a test reaction for isothermal heat conduction microcalorimeters used for determination of both thermodynamic and kinetic parameters’ Thermochimica Acta , 380 (1), pp. 13-17. ISSN 0040-6031
My research focuses on pharmaceutics and physical chemistry, incorporating preformulation and formulation aspects of pharmaceutical interest. If you are interested in working with Dr Waters please e-mail your CV with a covering letter to l.waters@hud.ac.uk.
