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Pleased to have been given an award for the most outstanding presentation at the BRC symposium at St Anne's College. My talk was on "Identification of substandard and falsified vaccines using a panel of low-cost tests". @BiochemOxford @KavliOxford
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Pleased to have published this paper with @BiochemOxford @KavliOxford @NDMOxford
@CGHRinfo @IDDOnews @PSIOxford @OxfordChemistry @RutherfordApLab @SerumInstIndia🇮🇳 @WHO🌐 @UEL_News @Agilent @McCullaghGroup @UniofOxford. Thanks to VIE and our collaborators
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Feb 18
NEW: An international team of researchers led by Oxford University and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have demonstrated that hospital analysers can be used to identify fake liquid medical products.
Find out more ⬇️
ALT A laboratory technician in a white coat, hair net and gloves operates a hospital analyser, handling small brown glass vials on a circular testing machine. Rows of similar vials are arranged in the foreground, with another staff member working in the background. Overlaid text reads: “Existing hospital analysers offer a low-cost method to screen for fake vaccines” and “ox.ac.uk/news | University of Oxford”.
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
In case you missed it... our very own Dr Bevin Gangadharan speaks about why it's so important not only that detection of contaminants in eg medicinal syrups is available but is also low-cost and rapid.👏👏👏
18 Dec 2025
"Many of these cases which have happened have been in low and middle income countries and so we wanted rapid cheap affordable tests to be used."
Dr Bevin Gangadharan told That’s TV how his team’s approach is much quicker and easy for professionals to use.
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20 Dec 2025
Thank you @TTVOxfordshire. We have repurposed simple, rapid and low-cost tests (saliva/breastmilk alcohol strips and disposable breathalysers) to help prevent child deaths from contaminated medicinal syrups.
Note: The strips are less than £1 (I accidentally said under £10).
18 Dec 2025
"Many of these cases which have happened have been in low and middle income countries and so we wanted rapid cheap affordable tests to be used."
Dr Bevin Gangadharan told That’s TV how his team’s approach is much quicker and easy for professionals to use.
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18 Dec 2025
"The reasons why these toxic ingredients happen to be found in syrups are various. They are intentional and nonintentional cases."
That's TV spoke to Celine Caillet about how she hopes the test will prevent tainted medicine from reaching young children.
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
Congratulations to Prof Nicole Zitzmann, Dr Bevin Gangadharan and Dr Yohan Arman on developing a low-cost rapid test to identify heat-damaged vaccines. Their work could protect vaccine effectiveness, particularly in low-resource settings. 🏅Read more: ⬇️bit.ly/2025_12_gangadharan
ALT Portrait images of Prof Nicole Zitzmann, Dr Bevin Gangadharan and Dr Yohan Arman
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
17 Dec 2025
Rapid test to identify heat-damaged vaccines
Researchers from Medicine Quality Research Group and collaborators developed and evaluated a method to identify heat-exposed vaccines without sophisticated lab equipment
@IDDOnews @MORUBKK
Read more 👉 tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/ne…
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
17 Dec 2025
🚨 New paper alert!
Researchers have developed a rapid, low-cost test to detect heat-damaged vaccines—no specialist lab equipment required.
@TropMedOxford @int_j_pharm_sci @bevingan @Caillette0202 @PaulNNewton @UniofOxford
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5 Dec 2025
Pleased that our paper has been published where we repurpose rapid, low-cost tests to help prevent child deaths from contaminated medicinal syrups.
Thanks to @benedict_yohan, @zitzmann_nicole and rest of the DEG-EG team in Oxford.
5 Dec 2025
NEW: Researchers have shown that simple, rapid, and low-cost tests can detect deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups – the same contaminants linked to the deaths of hundreds of children worldwide.
They repurposed existing rapid tests, each costing under £1.
Find out more ⬇️
ALT Two beakers filled with amber liquid and a syringe on a table, emphasising the development of rapid, low-cost tests for contaminated medicinal syrups. Image credit: University of Oxford.
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
5 Dec 2025
Low-cost, rapid tests like alcohol test strips & breathalysers can detect toxic contaminants in medicinal syrups
@IDDOnews
With over 300 child deaths worldwide linked to syrup contamination, these simple tools could save lives.
Read more 👉 tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/ne…
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
Simple, rapid, inexpensive tests can detect deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups – contaminants that have tragically led to the deaths of hundreds of children worldwide. The discovery was made by researchers here @UniofOxford and collaborators. ➡️Read bit.ly/202512_gangadharan
ALT This flow chart demonstrates how metabolic pathways of PG and glycerol are used as excipients in syrups and DEG/EG, including the use of glycolate oxidase for the detection of glycolic acid. To simplify this pathway, steps with NAD and NADH have been omitted.
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
16 Feb 2025
#ScienceReadForSunday: Identifying falsified COVID-19 vaccines by analysing vaccine vial label and excipient profiles using MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
🛡️ Fighting Fake Vaccines! The Zitzmann Group & collaborators developed a non-invasive method to detect falsified COVID-19 vaccines by analysing vial labels & liquids using MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry. A breakthrough for global health!
🔗 kavli.web.ox.ac.uk/article/i…
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
3 Feb 2025
Researchers at Oxford University and their collaborators, including @SerumInstIndia, have developed an innovative method to identify falsified vaccines without opening the vaccine vial.
More info ⬇️
ALT Conveyor belt at a production facility with multiple vials of vaccines, as highlighted by the University of Oxford's news about a new method to identify counterfeit vaccines.
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
31 Jan 2025
Fake vaccines threaten global health and are hard to detect. But now, UEL and a consortium led by University of Oxford have published a new way to identify fake vaccines. 💉
Read more 👉 uel.ac.uk/about-uel/news/202… @UniofOxford #UELYearofHealth
ALT Scientist using a pipette in a laboratory. Text reads 'News', 'UEL supports new research to identify fake vaccines'.
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
31 Jan 2025
In a collaborative new study, researchers at @TropMedOxford have published a way to detect fake #COVID19 vaccines without opening the vial 💉 This method should help to maintain #GlobalHealth and reduce the usage of fake vaccines globally 🌏
Read more 👉 ndm.ox.ac.uk/news/identifyin…
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
31 Jan 2025
Researchers from the Medicine Quality Research Group @MORUBKK @IDDOnews have published an innovative method to identify #FalsifiedVaccines without opening the vaccine vial!
Fakes were identified by analysing vial labels and vaccine liquids
Read more 👉 tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/ne…
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30 Jan 2025
Our novel method to identify fake vaccines without opening the vial ox.ac.uk/news/2025-01-30-res…
@benedict_yohan @BiochemOxford @KavliOxford @NDMOxford @McCullaghGroup @RutherfordApLab @STFC_Matters @SerumInstIndia 🇮🇳@OxfordChemistry @WHO 🌐@UniofOxford @biomerieux @UEL_News @Agilent
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
Researchers at the University of Oxford and their collaborators, including the Serum Institute of India, have published an innovative method to identify falsified vaccines without opening the vaccine vial bit.ly/202501-zitzmann
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Bevin Gangadharan retweeted
The Zitzmann Lab is committed to contributing to this effort by advancing our understanding of viral biology and working toward therapies that can make a meaningful impact on global health. For more information about the lab please visit: zitzmannlab.web.ox.ac.uk/res…
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