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Johns Hopkins researchers tout medicine-delivering microdevices

November 3, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Johns Hopkins researchers are touting microdevices that can latch onto intestinal mucosa and release drugs into the body. Led by engineering professor David Gracias and gastroenterologist Dr. Florin Selaru, the team of researchers and biomedical engineers designed and tested shape-changing microdevices that they say can mimic the way the parasitic hookworm affixes itself to an […]

Filed Under: Clinical Trials, Drug-Device Combinations, Featured, Preclinical Trials, Research & Development Tagged With: Johns Hopkins

Nanoparticles use 2 mechanisms to boost immunotherapy

June 12, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Nanoparticle immunotherapy

Cancer immunotherapy, a treatment approach that has gained momentum over the past few years, only helps a small fraction of patients. But researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a nanoparticle that may one day help expand the patient population that benefits from immunotherapy. Immunotherapy usually falls into 1 of 2 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Immunotherapy, Nanoparticles, Oncology, Preclinical Trials, Research & Development Tagged With: Johns Hopkins

Nanoparticles permeate lungs to deliver pulmonary drugs

April 11, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Lungs

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have developed nanoparticles that can shuttle chemicals through the thick mucus membranes of pulmonary airways to deliver drugs. The team’s work was published in the journal Science Advances.  Traditional therapies for cystic fibrosis, COPD and asthma include inhaled corticosteroids that adhere to the walls of air passages. Thick mucus tends to build […]

Filed Under: Featured, Nanoparticles, Preclinical Trials, Research & Development, Respiratory Tagged With: Johns Hopkins

BioCardia, Johns Hopkins treats first patient with CardiAmp cell therapy in Phase III trial

February 28, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

BioCardia

Johns Hopkins, the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund and BioCardia (NSDQ:BCDA) said today that the 1st patient has been treated in a pivotal Phase III trial of the CardiAmp cell-based therapy for the treatment of ischemic heart failure. The investigational therapy was designed to deliver a dose of a patient’s own bone marrow cells directly […]

Filed Under: Cardiovascular, Clinical Trials, Featured, Regenerative Medicine, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: BioCardia, Johns Hopkins

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