Professor Catherine Tuleu leads research in paediatric pharmaceutics, creating child-friendly, patient-centred medicines. She advances Sensory Pharmaceutics™, taste assessment, and novel dosage forms for young children, tackling administration challenges through wide collaboration. Founder of EuPFI and senCeuTics, she drives translational work shaping global paediatric drug development and also develops medicines that address women’s health needs.
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Selected publications
Sejal R. Ranmal, Jennifer Walsh, Catherine Tuleu. Poor-tasting pediatric medicines: Part 1. A scoping review of their impact on patient acceptability, medication adherence, and treatment outcomes. Front. Drug Deliv., 22 April 2025. Sec. Drug Delivery for Special Patient Populations. Volume 5 - 2025
Munsur Ahmed, Stephen Tomlin, Catherine Tuleu, Sara Garfield. Real-World Evidence of 3D Printing of Personalised Paediatric Medicines and Evaluating Its Potential in Children with Cancer: A Scoping Review. Pharmaceutics 2024, 16(9), 1212.
Sejal R Ranmal, Zeineb Nhouchi, Alexander Keeley, Lisa Adler, Marc Lavarde, Anne-Marie Pensé-Lhéritier, Catherine Tuleu. Taste assessment for paediatric drug Development: A comparison of bitterness taste aversion in children versus Naïve and expert young adult assessors. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, Volume 647, 25 November 2023, 123494.
Antonio Lopalco, Annachiara Manni, Alexander Keeley, Shozeb Haider, Wenliang Li, Angela Lopedota, Cosimo Damiano Altomare, Nunzio Denora and Catherine Tuleu. In Vivo Investigation of (2-Hydroxypropyl)-β-cyclodextrin-Based Formulation of Spironolactone in Aqueous Solution for Paediatric Use. Pharmaceutics 2022, 14(4), 780.
Jessica Soto, Alexander Keeley, Alison V. Keating, Abeer H.A. Mohamed-Ahmed, Yucheng Sheng, Gesine Winzenburg, Roy Turner, Sabine Desset-Brèthes, Mine Orlu, Catherine Tuleu. Rats can predict aversiveness of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics. Volume 133, December 2018, Pages 77-84.
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