Into the Breach 2: Implantable Pharmacies

Into the Breach 2: Implantable Pharmacies

Submitted by Md. Nasim Hyder, Nisarg J. Shah and Paula T. Hammond of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

Koch Institute at MIT, MIT Department of Chemical Engineering

This image shows a biodegradable scaffold with a highly intricate porous surface that can be implanted in the body and used as a drug delivery depot to release multiple drugs in a controlled manner. Such an approach can be used for applications ranging from delivering chemotherapeutics to regenerative medicine to repair new tissue in the body.

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