Victoria Kett

Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy
Material and Advanced Technologies for Healthcare

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 2008
Emailv.kett@qub.ac.uk

Room 01.019 - Pharmacy & MCI
United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Open to PhD applications in the field of pharmaceutics, vaccine technology, mucosal and thermal analysis including amorphous and polymorphic systems. - Novel mucosal delivery of biofilm penetrating antibiotics - Vaccine delivery via mucosal routes - Novel spray-dried powders for delivery to the lung

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Personal profile

Interests

Dr. Kett is a member of the Drug Delivery Research Group. Her research interests lie in the development and characterisation of freeze-dried (lyophilised) formats. Examples of these include

freeze-dried tablets for mucosal (nasal, sublingual and vaginal) administration of material including HIV vaccine and microbicides.
freeze-dried/spray freeze-dried liposomes for nasal/pulmonary delivery.
freeze-dried nanoparticles for delivery to the eye

More fundamental research includes investigation into the mechanisms of protein protection during freeze-drying using thermal analysis techniques (DSC, MTDSC and isothermal microcalorimetry) as well as neutron scattering in collaboration with colleagues at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

She has also worked extensively in the use of thermal techniques to characterise amorphous systems and the detection of polymorphic transitions.

Dr. Kett was involved in the foundation of the Clinical Raman microscopy unit together with colleagues from the schools of chemistry and Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Science and has published on the use of this technique for the identification of polymorphic changes in pharmaceutical systems.
In 2002 she was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Thermal Methods Group Cyril Keattch award for “The Application of Thermoanalytical Techniques to the Study of the Freeze Drying Process”.

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Projects

1 Finished
5 Active

R3022PMY: Inhaled Azithromycin for Treatment of Chronic Respiratory Infection

Kett, V., Ingram, B. & Tunney, M.

09/02/2018 → …

Project: Research

R2003PMY: Chemokine-based microbicides: a pathway from a first-in-human study towards Phase2/3 and licensure

Malcolm, K., Boyd, P. & Kett, V.

13/02/2015 → …

Project: Research

R2778PMY: RALA/hOC-iNOS: An Alternative Gene therapy Sysytem

McCarthy, H., Kett, V. & Robson, T.

01/08/2011 → 17/12/2019

Project: Research

S2301PMY: KTP/Norbdrook Laboratories Ltd

Kett, V.

01/08/2010 → 17/12/2019

Project: ktp

S2168PMY: DTI/ Biopharma Technology Ltd

Kett, V.

01/08/2001 → 17/12/2019

Project: ktp

Research Output

55 Paper
34 Article
9 Poster
6 Chapter
9 More

Development and pharmacokinetics of a combination vaginal ring for sustained release of dapivirine and the protein microbicide 5P12-RANTES

McBride, J. W., Malcolm, R. K., Dias, N., Cameron, D., Offord, R. E., Hartley, O., Kett, V. L., Devlin, B. & Boyd, P., 10 Jun 2019, In : International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 564, p. 207-213 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2 Citations (Scopus)

The impact of electronic prescription on reducing medication errors in an Egyptian outpatient clinic

Kenawy, A. S. & Kett, V., 01 Jul 2019, In : International Journal of Medical Informatics. 127, p. 80-87 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Vaginal rings with exposed cores for sustained delivery of the HIV CCR5 inhibitor 5P12-RANTES

McBride, J. W., Boyd, P., Dias, N., Cameron, D., Offord, R. E., Hartley, O., Kett, V. L. & Malcolm, R. K., 01 Mar 2019, In : Journal of Controlled Release. 298, p. 1-11

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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