Drug & Gene Delivery
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Researchers Win $11.5 Million for Vaccine Delivery: Georgia Tech & Emory University to use microneedle patches for painless flu vaccinations
October 3, 2007 — Flu vaccine delivered through painless microneedles in patches applied to the skin could soon be an alternative to delivery through hypodermic needles, according to researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Using new grants from the NIH totaling approximately $11.5 million over five years, researchers from the two institutions plan to develop a new vaccine product using the microscopic needles.
Study Demonstrates Effectiveness of Microneedles
First peer-reviewed human study shows devices can deliver drugs
February 4, 2008 — Researchers at the University of Kentucky and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated that patches coated on one side with microscopic needles can facilitate transdermal delivery of clinically-relevant doses of a drug that normally cannot pass through the skin. The study could help advance the use of microneedles as a painless method for delivering drugs, proteins, DNA and vaccines into the body.
Research Shows How Ultrasound Can Deliver Drugs
September 5, 2006 — Researchers have shown how ultrasound energy can briefly "open a door" in the protective outer membranes of living cells to allow entry of drugs and other therapeutic molecules — and how the cells themselves can then quickly close the door. Understanding this mechanism could advance the use of ultrasound for delivering gene therapies, targeting chemotherapy and administering large-molecule drugs that cannot readily move through cell membranes.
New Polymer Shows Promise for Drug Delivery
March 28, 2006 — A newly developed family of biodegradable polymers has shown potential for use in intracellular delivery and sustained release of therapeutic drugs to the acidic environments of tumors, inflammatory tissues and intracellular vesicles that hold foreign matter.
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