Medical Xpress May 3, 2021
by University of East Anglia

Customized medicines could one day be manufactured to patients’ individual needs, with University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers investigating technology to 3D ‘print’ pills.

The team, including Dr. Andy Gleadall and Prof Richard Bibb at Loughborough University, identified a new additive manufacturing method to allow the 3D printing of in highly , which can be used to regulate the rate of drug release from the medicine to the body when taken orally.

Dr. Sheng Qi, a Reader in Pharmaceutics at UEA’s School of Pharmacy, led the research. The project findings, “Effects of porosity on drug release kinetics of swellable and erodible porous pharmaceutical solid dosage forms fabricated by hot melt droplet deposition 3D printing,” are published today in...

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Topics: 3D Printing, Biotechnology, Pharma, Pharma / Biotech, Technology
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