5 Key Takeaways

• 1

  Personalized medicine tailors treatment to individual patient characteristics, needs, and preferences throughout all stages of care.

• 2

  Current drug therapies require patients to adapt to mass-produced medications with fixed dosages and release performance.

• 3

  The research team is exploring 3D printing technologies to develop custom drug delivery systems, particularly capsular devices.

• 4

  Hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) was used to create a pharmaceutical filament for 3D printing custom delivery systems called Chronocap.

• 5

  In vitro tests showed that 3D printed devices had satisfactory pulsatile delivery performance comparable to molded systems.