Dr Sachin Sunil Thakur

BPharm (Hons) PhD

Lecturer

In: Pharmacy » Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences

Research | Current

Research interests

Stimuli-responsive drug delivery
Posterior eye disease
Hydrogel formulation
Microbubble-based delivery systems

Teaching | Current

Undergraduate course coordination

PHARMACY 212 - Course director and Pharmaceutical Sciences module leader

PHARMACY 213 - Gastrointestinal module leader

Areas of expertise

Ocular drug delivery
Pharmaceutical sciences

Committees/Professional groups/Services

Controlled Release Society Young Scientists Committee

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Thakur, S. S., Pan, X., Kumarasinghe, G. L., Yin, N., Pontre, B. P., Vaghefi, E., & Rupenthal, I. D. (2020). Relationship between rheological properties and transverse relaxation time (T2) of artificial and porcine vitreous humour. Experimental Eye Research, 19410.1016/j.exer.2020.108006
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/50267
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Wilson Pan, Beau Pontre, Ilva Rupenthal, Ehsan Vaghefi
Thakur, S. S., Shenoy, S. K., Suk, J. S., Hanes, J. S., & Rupenthal, I. D. (2020). Validation of hyaluronic acid-agar-based hydrogels as vitreous humor mimetics for in vitro drug and particle migration evaluations. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 148, 118-125. 10.1016/j.ejpb.2020.01.008
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/50266
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Ilva Rupenthal
Lee, S., Khun, D., Kumarasinghe, G. L., De Zoysa, G. H., Sarojini, V., Vellara, H. R., ... Thakur, S. S. (2019). Ex vivo evaluation of the stability, safety and antibacterial efficacy of an extemporaneous povidone-iodine preparation for ophthalmic applications. Clinical & experimental optometry, 102 (6), 583-589. 10.1111/cxo.12899
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/50051
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Ilva Rupenthal, Heru De Zoysa, Viji Sarojini
Thakur, S. S., Chen, Y.-S., Houston, Z. H., Fletcher, N., Barnett, N. L., Thurecht, K. J., ... Parekh, H. S. (2019). Ultrasound-responsive nanobubbles for enhanced intravitreal drug migration: An ex vivo evaluation. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 136, 102-107. 10.1016/j.ejpb.2019.01.014
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/47009
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Ilva Rupenthal
Thakur, S. S., Ward, M. S., Popat, A., Flemming, N. B., Parat, M. O., Barnett, N. L., & Parekh, H. S. (2017). Stably engineered nanobubbles and ultrasound - An effective platform for enhanced macromolecular delivery to representative cells of the retina. PLoS ONE, 12 (5)10.1371/journal.pone.0178305
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/35818