Under the supervision of Associate Professor Dr. Sarmed H. Kathum AlKhateeb, the Dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Baghdad. The Continuing Education Unit, in collaboration with the Ibn Sina unit at the college, held a workshop under the title “New techniques for selective treatment of brain disorders) that was delivered by Associate Professor Dr. Zahraa Sahib Al-Ahmady at the school of science and technology at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. Under the management of Associate Professor Dr. Khaled Kadhum Al-Kinani, Head of the Pharmaceutics Department of our College. The workshop dealt with the latest research and techniques developed to get the drug to an important part of the body, namely the brain. Because delivering the drug to this part of the brain hits the cerebral barrier of the blood-brain barrier, it requires formulating the drug so that it is able to access brain tissue to treat pathological conditions that require it. This is what Dr. Zahraa explained, and she also showed some animal models developed by her scientific team at Nottingham Trent University to simulate the permeability of the cerebral blood barrier in some diseases and how to exploit this property to deliver the drug to the desired tissue, where evidence was presented that proves this has been done through the design of a sophisticated and precisely targeted drug delivery system as an accessory to the delivery of the drug by fatty nanoparticles as well as vesicles transporting the drug. The workshop included questions and comments from the generous attendance of over 100 faculty members and researchers, and it was agreed to host Dr. Zahraa in other lectures in the near future to transfer scientific expertise at British universities to our dear postgraduate students.
