Odou, Pascal

Affiliation: 

CHU Lille

Country: 

France

1. Current Status, Position

Prof Dr. Pascal Odou is currently Head Pharmacist at Lille University Hospital. He specialises in hospital drug compounding. Prof Pascal Odou is also Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Lille, where he heads a team working on injectables. 

2. Education

He studied at the University of Lille. He obtained his PhD in 1997 and his hospital pharmacist diploma in 1998. Since then, he has focused on the environment of hospital injectables, and since the pandemic he has been working on ways to avoid drug shortages in France.

3. Research Area

His research focuses on hospital environment for injectables. He first worked on the design of cleanrooms, then developed work on the compatibility of injected drugs, taking into account packaging or administration materials and mixtures injected. Today, he is studying the impact of robotization on the manufacture of hospital drugs.

4. Conflict of interest

None