Implantable Pharmacy-On-a-Chip Now Under Fasttrack Development
July 6, 2021 By Deborah Borfitz July 6, 2021 | A trio of universities are putting their heads together to engineer a wirelessly controlled bioelectronic implant intended to help soldiers adapt to new time zones or drastic changes in their work schedules by releasing peptide-based therapies to harmonize their central and peripheral circadian clocks. The solicitation came from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the timeline is ambitious, with a first-in-human safety study expected to begin by 2025, according to Jonathan Rivnay, principal investigator of the p...