How 3-D Printing Will Enable Personalised Drug Delivery

3D printing - Ricky Wildman

A summary of Ricky Wildman's presentation '3D printing of biomaterials for drug delivery systems and future prospects' which he gave at MedtecUK, 4 March in London, has been published (follow the first link to see the publication in The Daily Buzz).

The presentation describes how, in the future, 3-D printed drug delivery devices will allow for patient-specific formulation and tailored release characteristics.  It describes how progress on this is being made at the University of Nottingham. A collaboration between the Faculty of Engineering and the School of Pharmacy is developing a new range of biocompatible, ink jettable biomaterials, primarily for the purpose of drug delivery. These efforts take advantage of the state of the art facilities at the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing and in the Laboratory of Biophysics and Surface Analysis.