Sentences with phrase «studying the drug delivery»

Palczewski, a vision scientist, and Lu, who studies drug delivery, have worked together on this research for six years.

The researchers were studying the drug delivery system at the cellular level and hope to continue the research with future animal studies.

Not exact matches

Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

There were no differences between groups in the gestational age at randomization, time to uterine quiescence, time on study drug, length of hospitalization, days from randomization to delivery, incidence of side effects, or admissions to the neonatal intensive care unit.

PFC was one of the initial study sites for FDA approval of the Follistim Pen, an FSH medication delivery device that today has made fertility drug administration much easier and comfortable for patients and is now widely used for ovarian stimulation.

Many women don't want to deliver in a hospital because they fear their choices — to avoid drugs, to avoid surgery, to be surrounded by their families, to be with the baby immediately after delivery — will be taken away, said Carolyn L. Gegor, program director of the Nurse Midwifery / Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Hannes Stockinger, the senior author of the study, adds: «If we coupled this delivery method with screening of patient's tumours for the presence of a unique surface protein, which we can target with the Fab fragment - functionalized liposomes, we might be able to treat tumours more efficiently and decrease the side effects of the delivered anti-cancer drugs substantially.

Dr. McCabe said nanoparticles are a leading - edge technology also being studied for delivery of drugs for other conditions, such as cancer, heart disease, and bacterial infections, in order to target specific cells to reduce toxicity and side effects of those medications and to make them more effective.

«Future comparative oncology studies, optimizing the delivery of PMed strategies, may aid cancer drug development.»

There are multiple techniques currently being studied for this type of drug delivery mechanism, from microneedles to iontophoresis (transdermal drug delivery via electric current), but the Kumamoto University researchers designed to improve a technique called transdermal thermal ablation.

The findings will likely guide future studies not only on the potential of nanodiamonds in drug delivery but also on fighting bacteria and treating viral diseases.

The study involved 21 women randomly assigned to receive a 60 - hour infusion of the drug or a placebo within six months after delivery.

In a separate study, Discher and colleagues tested whether their approach could improve the delivery of drugs.

«There are a lot of questions about how to implement it,» says Connie Celum, an HIV researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle, who led a large trial of the drug in East Africa and has begun studies to answer practical delivery questions, such as which subsets of people are at highest risk.

In a study using mice, the researchers found that using Dox and TRAIL in the pseudo-platelet drug delivery system was significantly more effective against large tumors and circulating tumor cells than using Dox and TRAIL in a nano - gel delivery system without the platelet membrane.

Added Robert Rieben, PhD, associate professor of Transplantation Immunology, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, co-corresponding study author: «Continuous release of the drugs irrespective of disease severity is a hallmark of existing drug delivery vehicles and could be a thing of the past.

Initiating drug therapy during pregnancy caused rapid declines in viral load, but more than 95 percent of women studied reported at least one side effect before delivery, which may lower adherence.

A new study shows that a 70 - year - old malaria drug can block immune cells in the liver so nanoparticles can arrive at their intended tumor site, overcoming a significant hurdle of targeted drug delivery, according to a team of researchers led by Houston Methodist.

«Human chronobiome» study informs timing of drug delivery, precision medicine approaches.»

Prior studies suggested that nanoparticle drug delivery might improve the therapeutic response to anticancer drugs and allow the simultaneous monitoring of drug uptake by tumors.

Nanoparticles are being studied as drug delivery systems to treat a wide variety of diseases.

«The failure rate to deliver drugs to CNS is unfortunately very high, so any new methods of drug, protein and gene delivery should be welcome,» says Inder Verma, Ph.D., a professor in the Laboratory of Genetics and senior author of the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Shahab explaines the study's findings would pave the way for designing more - efficient drug delivery capsules in the future, especially those that can be activated by focused ultrasound waves.

«Our work sets the stage for researchers interested in studying the fundamental properties of interesting materials and applied systems, such as solar cells, batteries, sensors, paints and drug delivery systems,» said Dichtel, the Robert L. Letsinger Professor of Chemistry at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

CCHa2 could provide an ideal model for the study of BBB function as well as drug delivery across the BBB.

In their study, published in the October issue of Biomaterials Science, the researchers built a drug delivery system using apoferritin, the same ball of natural proteins that carries iron around in blood without letting the iron leak out.

Jessica Tucker, program director of Drug and Gene Delivery and Devices at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, said the approach outlined in the study has the ability to combine both imaging and therapeutic applications in a single platform, which has been difficult to achieve, especially in an organic, and therefore biocompatible, vehicle.

In his own lab, he is focused on improving the affinity of the meditope - Fab hitch, developing multivalent meditopes for imaging and drug delivery and beginning pre-clinical studies.

In a study to be published in the May 23 print issue of the journal Small (and currently available online [abstract]-RRB-, they demonstrate the ability to package drug - loaded «nanodisks» into vault nanoparticles, naturally occurring nanoscale capsules that have been engineered for therapeutic drug delivery.

Wimberly decided to continue his study of genetics and drug delivery at Samulski's alma mater after turning down Emory, Vanderbilt, USC, UCLA, the University of Colorado, and Alabama - Birmingham.

Solomon Diamond, PhD, and Todd Miller, PhD, received a joint Prouty grant to study image - guided drug delivery that relies on magnetic tags and imaging methods.

Mooney uses the results from these studies to design and synthesize new biomaterials that regulate the gene expression of interacting cells for a variety of tissue engineering and drug delivery projects.