| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R18192/01 |
| Title: |
IMI: Innovation In Healthcare Combining Electronics, Drug Delivery & Information Technologies |
| Principal Investigator: |
Price, Professor R |
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| Department: |
Pharmacy and Pharmacology |
| Organisation: |
University of Bath |
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| Starts: |
01 October 2001 |
Ends: |
31 March 2004 |
Value (£): |
81,837
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Bioelectronic Devices |
Drug Formulation & Delivery |
| Med.Instrument.Device& Equip. |
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Pulmonary drug delivery devices provide a mechanism for non-invasive delivery of therapies through inhalation. Such therapies include treatment of asthma and diabetes by entrainment of dry powder drug formulations. Current generation devices are primarily mechanical and include traditional propellant driven metered does inhaler actuators and newer breath actuated devices. Significant opportunities are offered through the addition of electronics and software and the consequent ability to exploit information and communication system technologies with drug delivery devices. These are both to the patient, along the healthcare value chain and, in manufacturing business efficiencies.The consortium of academic researchers, drug formulation and delivery device companies and healthcare providers will research the business, societal, clinical, regulatory and economic issues involved in the harnessing of new technologies for a new generation of delivery devices and there insertion in the healthcare system. A parallel research programme will explore electronic, mechanical and material elements of the delivery device, together with appropriate physical formulations of candidate therapies. The research will deliver a series of IPR-generating concepts relating to each part of the programme, a clinically trialled demonstrator device and a business plan for its exploitation to the benefit of the healthcare system as a whole.
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http://www.bath.ac.uk |