CEPR

Team 3

PHARMACOLOGY OF INHALED PHARMACEUTICALS

Team leader : Nathalie HEUZE-VOURC'H

Scientific goals

Communicateand disseminate the scientific knowledge on respiratory diseases and inhalation
Accelerate the development of inhaled medicines/products and innovative devices
Support the industrial actors for the development of new inhaled pharmaceuticals/inhalation technologies
Foster the transfer of inhaled pharmaceuticals/inhalation technologies into the clinics
Participate in the regulatory assessment and guideline establishment for the use of inhalation medicines/products
Extend the use of inhalation to biotherapeutics (RNA, vaccines, therapeutic, antibodies, ...) and innovative pharmaceuticals

Research areas

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Study pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of inhaled pharmaceuticals
Develop inhaled formulations to improve drug stability/ efficacy
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Characterize devices, drugs & devices for inhalation delivery

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Establish novel experimental models/ methods for inhalation to help translation into the clinics

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Establish biological collections to investigate barriers to inhalation

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Operate clinical trials with novel inhalation modalities/ inhaled drugs

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Study pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of inhaled pharmaceuticals
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Develop inhaled formulations to improve drug stability/ efficacy
cepr inserm tours
Characterize devices, drugs & devices for inhalation delivery
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Establish novel experimental models/ methods for inhalation to help translation into the clinics
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Establish biological collections to investigate barriers to inhalation
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Operate clinical trials with novel inhalation modalities/ inhaled drugs

Members

Team leaders

Nathalie HEUZE-VOURC'H

Nathalie HEUZE-VOURC'H

Team Leader
nathalie.vourch@univ-tours.fr
Laurent PLANTIER

Laurent PLANTIER

Deputy Team Leader
laurent.plantier@univ-tours.fr

Specific expertises

Nasal cast models

Aerosol metrology

ALI culture

PK/PD Studies

Physico-chemistry of proteins

Deposition Studies

Clinical Studies

Key events

2023
2022
2020
2019
2014

Fundings & partnerships

Fundings

Scientific environment

Partners

France

Europe

USA

Communicate and disseminate the scientific knowledge and advances toward various audiences

Support the industrial actors for the development of new inhaled pharmaceuticals/inhalation technologies 

Participate in the regulatory assessment and guideline establishment for the use of inhalation medicines/products

Accelerate the development of inhaled medicines/products and innovative inhalers

Foster the transfer of inhaled pharmaceuticals/inhalation technologies into the clinics

Extend the use of inhalation to biotherapeutics (RNA vaccines, therapeutic antibodies…) and innovative pharmaceuticals

Communicate and disseminate the scientific knowledge and advances toward various audiences

Support the industrial actors for the development of new inhaled pharmaceuticals/inhalation technologies 

Participate in the regulatory assessment and guideline establishment for the use of inhalation medicines/products

Accelerate the development of inhaled medicines/products and innovative inhalers

Foster the transfer of inhaled pharmaceuticals/inhalation technologies into the clinics

Extend the use of inhalation to biotherapeutics (RNA vaccines, therapeutic antibodies…) and innovative pharmaceuticals