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Researchers design ingestible sensor for controlled drug release

December 31, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner

MIT wireless pill

Researchers from MIT, Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Draper have developed a Bluetooth-controlled ingestible capsule that can sense the temperature of its environment and reside in the stomach for at least a month. The device, which was tested in an animal study and composed of 3D-printed parts, is powered by a small silver oxide battery […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Patient Monitoring, Pharmaceuticals Tagged With: Brigham & Women's Hospital, Draper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Draper develops novel device to deliver drugs to the inner ear

November 6, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Millions of people around the world are losing their hearing thanks to inner ear disorders and the pharmaceutical industry has spent years working to develop therapeutics to help address this patient population. But Jeff Borenstein, lead scientist for drug delivery at Draper, discovered by talking to experts in the hearing loss field that many of […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Otolaryngology Ear, Nose & Throat, Pharmaceuticals, Technology Tagged With: cbset, cilcare, Draper, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

Powering the next generation of ingestible drug delivery devices

May 17, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Traditional implants in the gastrointestinal tract are meant to pass through a patient’s system, delivering a drug in short bursts or recording the health of a patient’s colon. But in recent years, scientists have sought after ultra-long lasting ingestible devices that can deliver drugs for several weeks in a patient’s GI tract. Lyndra, Inc., a start-up […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceuticals, Research & Development Tagged With: Brigham & Women's Hospital, Draper, lyndra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wireless power source could enable ingestible drug delivery devices

April 28, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Wireless power source for devices

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory have developed the means to wirelessly power electronic devices that stay in the digestive tract indefinitely. The team suggests that these devices could be used as sensors in the GI tract or carry drugs to be delivered over […]

Filed Under: Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Pharmaceuticals, Research & Development Tagged With: Brigham & Women's Hospital, Draper, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3D model of female reproductive system could help test drugs for efficacy, safety

March 28, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

3D model of female reproductive system could help test drugs for efficacy, safety

In January last year, the National Institutes of Health issued a new requirement for grant funding in basic science: Researchers must discuss how gender as a biological variable will impact their research. Teresa Woodruff, director of the Women’s Health Research Institute at Northwestern University, told Drug Delivery Business News that this helped support their effort to develop a model that […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pharmaceuticals, Preclinical Trials, Research & Development, Stem Cells, Women's Health Tagged With: Draper, National Institutes of Health, Northwestern University, Pfizer Inc., University of Illinois at Chicago

Draper, Pfizer ink ‘organ-on-a-chip’ deal

December 20, 2016 By Sarah Faulkner

Draper, Pfizer ink 'organ-on-a-chip' deal

Draper said today that it inked a 3-year collaboration deal with Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) to develop Draper’s microphysiological system technology. The ‘organ-on-a-chip’ system is designed to improve preclinical safety and model diseases more effectively. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company’s miniature organ model enables researchers to measure tissue function and test potential new drug candidates. Draper and Pfizer will collaborate […]

Filed Under: Featured, Pharmaceuticals, Preclinical Trials, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Draper, Pfizer Inc.

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