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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 5919
Email
natalie.hughes@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor, Associate Dean (Undergraduate Programmes)
Qualifications
PhD BSc(Stats) BPharm
Research summary
Clinical pharmacy; drug delivery
Teaching
Biopharmaceutics, drug delivery and clinical pharmaceutics to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Research

Drug delivery in clinical pharmacy. This involves research spanning basic research of drug delivery systems, and their optimal use in patients.

Protein drug physical stability and analytical methods to study interactions between protein drugs and formulation excipients.

Professor Hughes on PubMed

Additional details

Referee of articles in the pharmaceutical sciences.

Publications

Chen, C., Duncan, W. J., Hughes-Medlicott, N. J., Alhamdani, G., & Coates, D. E. (2025). Chitosan-based nanoencapsulation of mānuka oil for periodontal treatment. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 26, 10201. doi: 10.3390/ijms262010201 Journal - Research Other

Alhamdani, G., Abdelmoneim, D., Duncan, W. J., Li, K. C., Hughes, N., Chen, C., & Coates, D. E. (2025, September). Collagen-based constructs for periodontal and bone regeneration. Verbal presentation at the Faculty of Dentistry Clinical and Research Excellence Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Chen, C., Duncan, W. J., Hughes, N., Abdelmoneim, D., Alhamdani, G., & Coates, D. E. (2025, September). Antimicrobial biogel with mānuka oil-loaded nanospheres for periodontal treatment. Verbal presentation at the Faculty of Dentistry Clinical and Research Excellence Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Beaglehole, B., Glue, P., Neehoff, S., Shadli, S., McNaughton, N., Kimber, B., Muirhead, C., de Bie, A., … Hughes-Medlicott, N. (2025). Ketamine for treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder: A double-blind, active-controlled crossover study. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 59(Suppl. 1), (pp. 142). doi: 10.1177/00048674251327789 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Hughes-Medlicott, N. J., Nguyen, H., Glue, P., & Barak, Y. (2025). Allopregnanolone concentrations after ascending single dose administration of progesterone to healthy volunteers. Human Psychopharmacology, 40, e70012. doi: 10.1002/hup.70012 Journal - Research Article

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