Extraction and identification of potential active ingredient from expired pharmaceutical drugs

Every year billions of doses of medications go unused by patients in North America. Some of these are returned to pharmacies for appropriate disposal, but the majority of these are discarded in landfills or flushed into municipal wastewater streams. Our goal for this initiative is to collect unused and expired pharmaceuticals and develop a sustainable method to extract the active compounds, and to establi

Intern: 
Angham Saeed
Faculty Supervisor: 
Christina Bottaro;Kelly Hawboldt
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NL
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