Today, I spent time learning how IVRT works at Tergus Pharma. I observed how they dose ointments, gels, and cremes into the dosing chamber and also how they sample the doses (by shadowing Emeel). We learned about the regular intervals in which the sample doses. We later learned about HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatography) and we watched Adam making the mobile phases. We didn’t have time to actually run the chromatography, but we plan on doing that tomorrow if we have time.
One really cool thing we learned today was that all of the lab’s data is uploaded in real time to a place where it cannot be deleted. Then, later, the FDA has access to all of the results. Because of this, the scientists and lab techs double and triple check their methods before they run them in an HPLC or LCMS because otherwise, they could be subject to an investigation if something was messed up and not fixed.
