Basrah - College of Pharmacy Media:
Faculty members Dr. Hussein Nasser Khalaf and Dr. Shaker Abdul-Salem Nema from the College of Pharmacy obtained a patent from the Ministry of Planning / Central Organization for Standardization and Quality Control - Industrial Property. The patent involved manufacturing a chromatography device with two detection systems; one operating by electrical conductivity and the other by an ultraviolet (UV) system.
The patent involved manufacturing the device using parts available in the stores of the College of Pharmacy and the College of Education, while some parts were purchased from the local market, and other parts were manufactured inside the analytical chemistry laboratory at the College of Education for Pure Sciences. Computer programs were also designed to control the operation of the device's parts, ensuring it works in an integrated manner specifically developed to control the system. The patented device is used to estimate ionic species and pharmaceutical compounds in general.
This achievement aims to design a locally made chromatography device at the lowest possible cost, as the global price of an HPLC device ranges between 45 to 120 million Iraqi dinars, whereas the cost of the locally manufactured device is only around 12 million Iraqi dinars. The device is characterized by its high working efficiency, the ability to replace parts, and its controllability in estimating all types of organic, inorganic, and pharmaceutical compounds in general.
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