{"id":74,"date":"2015-03-18T13:42:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T00:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=74"},"modified":"2018-11-16T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T06:07:48","slug":"dr-alexandra-kafka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/group-members\/phd-students\/dr-alexandra-kafka\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Alexandra Kafka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Alex.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-83 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Alex-300x225.png\" alt=\"Alex\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Alex-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Alex.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>College:<\/strong> Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thesis title:<\/strong> Nanoparticulate systems for oral delivery of biocontrol agents to the common brushtail possum<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-supervisors:\u00a0<\/strong>Prof. Thomas Rades (School of Pharmacy, University of Otago), Dr Bernie McLeod (AgResearch, Invermay)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Polymeric alkylcyanoacrylate (PACA) delivery systems are well established as potential candidates for the peroral delivery of bioactives. Future therapeutics for chronic diseases in humans and fertility control for animals involve proteins and peptides to be delivered via the oral route.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">PACA nanoparticles appeal through their biodegradability, biocompatibility and their ease of preparation. Alex\u2019s work has been characterising poly(ethylcyanoacrylate) (PECA) nanoparticles containing gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues using MALDI-TOF.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MALDI-TOF work is done in association with Dr Torsten Kleffmann (Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Subsequent position:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">After graduating, Alex was appointed as a Scientist at Coriolis Pharma (www.coriolis-pharma.com) in Munich, Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College: Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Thesis title: Nanoparticulate systems for oral delivery of biocontrol agents to the common brushtail possum Co-supervisors:\u00a0Prof. Thomas Rades (School of Pharmacy, University of Otago), Dr Bernie McLeod (AgResearch, Invermay) Project description: Polymeric alkylcyanoacrylate (PACA) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/group-members\/phd-students\/dr-alexandra-kafka\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74\/revisions\/1055"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arlenemcdowell.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}