Clearside Developing Microinjector for Delivering Drugs

Microinjector

You may have heard that Microsoft and the University of Washington developed a contact lens for the delivery of medical care. There's another company working on a delivery system without contact lenses, as reported in Today's Medical Developments. "Technology developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University for delivering drugs and other therapeutics to specific locations in the eye provides the foundation for a startup company that has received a $4 million venture capital investment.
The Atlanta-based startup, Clearside Biomedical, plans to develop microinjection technology that will use hollow microneedles to precisely target therapeutics within the eye. If the technique proves successful in clinical trials and wins regulatory approval, it could provide an improved method for treating diseases that affect the back of the eye, including age-related macular degeneration. " Read more.