Natoli Institute for Industrial Pharmacy Research and Development

Rutesh Dave, Ph.D,
  718-488-1660
  Rutesh.Dave@liu.edu

Natoli Institute for Industrial Pharmacy Research and Development


A UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP DEDICATED TO ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELD OF PHARMACEUTICAL SOLID ORAL DOSAGE FORMULATION AND ENGINEERING

Natoli Engineering has partnered with The Arnold and Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and Long Island University to establish the Natoli Institute of Industrial Pharmacy Research and Development. The Natoli Institute is now open and actively managing projects for customers in the need of data and knowledge that can only be obtained by utilizing a facility like the Natoli Institute.

Dr. Rutesh Dave, faculty of pharmaceutics, and Dr. Charles N. Kettler, Director of Natoli Scientific are co-directors of the activities at the Natoli Institute. They are responsible for evaluating project submissions and working with the customers to define the scope of the work to be done, the resources required for the job and costs to deliver the customers' expectations. They invite you to review this brochure and contact them should you have research and development work that the Natoli Institute could investigate on your behalf.


Typical Projects Addressed
  • Tablet sticking and picking screening
  • Formulation development
  • Reproducing intellectual property claims
  • Placebo tablet production for packaging equipment testing
  • Coating studies
  • Bioavailability and dissolution studies
  • Training
Companies Served
  • Large and small pharmaceutical companies
  • Nutraceutical/Vitamin
  • Law firms
  • Confectionery industry
  • Catalyst manufacturers


Capabilities of the Institute
  • High shear wet granulation
  • Holt melt extrusion
  • Fluid bed granulation
  • Fluid bed coating and drying
  • Milling
  • Blending
  • Roller Compaction
  • Tablet Coating (solvent and aqueous)
  • Tablet Compression (single station & rotary tablet press)
  • Powder rheology measurement
  • Tablet analysis methods including tablet breaking force, friability, disintegration, dissolution testing, and content uniformity assessment
Major Equipment
  1. Roller Compactor
  2. Lab Coating System
  3. Fluid Bed System
  4. Lab Scale Blender
  5. Rotary Tablet Press
  6. Single Station Tablet Press
  7. High Shear Wet Granulation
  8. Hot Melt Extruder





The Natoli Institute can structure use of the facility to accomplish simple one of a kind experiments or assist a client to build a program for ongoing formulation compression and testing. The only limitation to the facility is our inability to use molecules that require significant isolation. If you are interested in our capabilities, please feel free to contact us. 


CONTACT

LIU Pharmacy
Arash T. Dabestani
PharmD, MHA, FASHP, FABC
Dean

718-488-1004