Mr Mohammed N Momin

About

Mohammed joined the Medway School of Pharmacy in 2005 and works as a Research Associate. Prior to this, Mohammed worked for a number of academic institutions, biochemical and pharmaceutical companies. During this time he undertook an MSc in Analytical Chemistry of Clinical Materials at the Birkbeck College London. Mohammed obtained his BSc(Hons) in Applied Chemistry from the University of Kingston. He is currently the lead for pharmaceutics teaching practical sessions on the second and third year of MPharm programme, some foundation year Practicals as well as support final year Sustained Research Projects, visiting students and students from school of science.

Research interests

Mohammed's current research interests include:

The design of novel pulmonary drugs which are commonly used in asthma and COPD. This includes single drug products such as salbutamol, budesonide, ipratropium and combination drug products such as budesonide / formoterol

The development and validation of HPLC methods for various drugs using a range of detection systems.

Professional

Selected Publications

• Siahai Shadbad MR, Millen L, Momin M N, Nokhodchi A (2013). The Effect of Solvent Treatment on the Performance of Various Carriers in Dry Powder Inhalations Containing Salbutamol Sulphate. Iran J Basic Med Sci; 16; 873 – 881.

• A Nokhodchi, M N Momin, A Iqbal (2011). An Investigation into Alternative Sugars as Potential Carriers for a Dry Powder Formulation of Budesonide and Foroterol. Biomedicine International 2(2), 43 – 54.
• M N Momin, A Nokhodchi (April – June 2011). The Use of Different Types of Lactose as a Carrier for the Development of Stable Ipratropium Bromide Formulation for Dry Powder Inhaler. Inventi Rapid: Pharm Tech Vol. 2011, Issue 2, XX-XX.

• M N Momin, D Patel, A Nokhodchi (July – September 2010). An Investigation on Alternative Sugars as Potential Carriers for Salbutamol Dry Powder Inhalers. Inventi Rapid : Pharm Tech 1(2), XX-XX.

• W Kaialy, M N Momin, M D Ticehurst, J Murphy, A Nokhodchi (2010). Engineered Mannitol as an alternative carrier to enhance deep lung penetration of salbutamol sulphate from dry powder inhaler. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 79 (2), 345-356.

• W Kaialy, G P Martin, M D Ticehurst, M N Momin, A Nokhodchi (2010). The enhanced aerosol performance of salbutamol from dry powders containing engineered mannitol as excipient. International Journal of Pharmaceutics 392 (1-2), 178-188.

• A Nokhodchi, O N Okwudarue, H Valizadeh, M N Momin (2009). Cogrinding as a Tool to Produce Sustained Release Behavior for Theophylline Particles Containing Magnesium Stearate. AAPS PharmSciTech 10(4), 1243 – 1251

Patents
• M I Goller, Q Li, J Ly, M N Momin, K Salas, A M Ukejie, R Yanamandra, X Zeng. Soft Steroid compositions for use in dry powder inhalers. Pub No: US 2009/0246281 A1 Pub Date: Oct. 1, 2009 PCT No: PCT/US04/36477