That's why it's so important to have faster and better diagnostics and drug delivery.
Partners Eli Lilly and Alkermes, whose drug delivery technology makes Bydureon long-acting, could also hurt.
The microchips are programmable, as well, so that the drug delivery can be automated.
Many of those solutions are likely to include targeted drug delivery--another trend worth watching in 2008.
Alza has a host of wonderful drug delivery technologies and some very interesting products.
It may be less glamorous than drug delivery, but it is no less necessary.
Nektar cofounder John Patton, a marine biologist by training, got into inhaled drug delivery almost by accident.
Whether the system can then be turned into a practical method of drug delivery is more questionable.
Nanotechnology enables drug delivery mechanisms that can send biologically active materials directly to the location where they are beneficial.
With that in mind, Cima and Chiang partnered with Rick Gyory, a drug delivery expert, to found SpringLeaf in September 2007.
Inhaled insulin is just the beginning of a revolution in drug delivery that will make numerous injection-only drugs easier to take.
More exciting, new formulations of the drug could treat several other conditions, including obesity, with the help of Alza drug delivery methods.
Physicians are in a unique position to know what dosages and drug delivery methods work best because they are treating actual patients.
Nanoscale materials are being used to address current drug delivery shortcomings, including water solubility, ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion) and toxicity.
The watchword, borrowed from the jargon of drug delivery, is combination prevention.
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One key theme: Integrating Alza's drug delivery technologies with existing drugs could increase their efficacy and even allow them to treat new diseases.
The company specializes in drug delivery systems, and it says that its delivery system is distinct from the one covered by AstraZeneca's patents.
When assessing the merits of a generic drug with a unique drug delivery technology, the most significant risk of course is patent protection.
AstraZeneca's lawyers say the generic companies that are working on their own versions of omeprazole infringe on the patents for this drug delivery system.
On the branded generics side, the company is heading full bore into novel drug delivery systems like the once-a-day version of Bayer antibacterial ciprofloxacin.
And its purity and large surface area make it suitable for medical uses too: from aiding drug delivery to building new tissue for regenerative medicine.
This year Langer was awarded the Charles Stark Draper Prize, a sort of Nobel Prize for engineering, for his lifetime of work in drug delivery systems.
Celsion is dedicated to the development and commercialization of oncology drugs including tumor-targeting treatments using focused heat energy in combination with heat activated drug delivery systems.
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The nanobiotech investment theme covers the nanoscale advances that will improve the accuracy and efficacy of target therapeutics, diagnostics, drug delivery, drug discovery and tissue engineering.
Working at this crossroads has enabled him to make huge leaps in the field of drug delivery systems and to design biodegradable polymers on which human tissue can grow.
Centralized dispensing pharmacies increase drug delivery time by 50%.
John Santini, its boss, says his company is working on drug delivery with a big pharmaceuticals firm, and that his laboratory curiosity will be a commercial reality within three to five years.
This is admittedly small stuff compared with tiny computers and targeted drug delivery, but it demonstrates how companies that master the technology will be able to produce an endless array of innovative products.
Eric Park, of Ziba, a design consultancy, reckons companies must also think about drug delivery systems and patient-friendly packaging, which could create a new kind of branded intellectual property that might be more defensible than drug patents.
Dr%20Geetha%20Srinivasan The aim of this research is to produce an advanced method of drug delivery directly to the site of infection, eliminating the conventional route of drug administration orally in which the drug often loses efficacy before it reaches the site of infection due to metabolism in the gastro-intestinal track.
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