Topics and Expertise: excipients

Dozens of presumed inactive ingredients may impact human biology

Wed Jul 29, 2020

Morguefile.com

School scientists have found that various inactive ingredients in drugs, known as excipients, may produce unwanted side effects in the human body.

School scientists identify excipients with potential to cause side effects

USP/UCSF fellowship to support research in the quality and safety of medical products

Wed Feb 27, 2019

The UCSF Fellowship in Quality of Medical Products will support research into excipients, or inactive ingredients found in pharmaceutical drugs.

A new fellowship, funded jointly by UCSF-Stanford CERSI and the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), will support research into the inactive components of medications, which are known as excipients.