Gene and Drug Delivery
Objective:
To deliver a pharmaceutical, protein, or nucleic acid to target safely in order to induce a therapeutic effect.
What We Do:
- Implantable biomedical scaffolds
- Injectable nano particles & micro particles
- Proteins, plasmids, viruses, small molecules
Applications:
- Cancer/tumor treatment by targeting cancer cells
- Regenerative medicine: trophic factors can be made available that can promote the formation of functional tissues
- Autoimmune diseases/allergies – desensitize a patient to specicfic protiens or factors that induce an aberrant immune response
- Inflammatory diseases – modulate the trafficking of immune cells that can create inflammation following injury