Human skin and nail drug delivery studies

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    To perform topical drug delivery experiments in donated human skin and nail clippings to support the preclinical development of several key projects at Blueberry Therapeutics Ltd

  • IRAS ID

    269087

  • Contact name

    Julie Cook

  • Contact email

    julie.cook@blueberrytherapeutics.com

  • Sponsor organisation

    Blueberry Therapeutics Limited

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    4 years, 11 months, 31 days

  • Research summary

    Our research platform is based on the reformatting of off patent proven drugs for the treatment of acne, dermatitis and fungal nail infections, to allow a much lower dose to be administered.
    Understanding how the drug is absorbed through the skin and nails is therefore critical in our development studies.
    To date our formulations have been tested on pig skin and we would now like to test these in human tissue as we believe this will provide a more accurate and relevant data set to allow the development of our formulations.

  • REC name

    South Central - Oxford A Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    20/SC/0311

  • Date of REC Opinion

    29 Sep 2020

  • REC opinion

    Further Information Favourable Opinion