The PSRC provides a focal point for impactful activities in research, education, and service in biomaterials, drug delivery, and regenerative medicine—key areas to transforming health care.

Focus Area

The PSRC addresses novel solutions in drug delivery systems and the treatment of important diseases

The physics of cancer, biological modeling of the growth and treatment of tumors, theranostics, and nanotechnology of chemotherapeutic drug administration.

Advanced artificial organs, medical devices, stents, and assist devices.

Diagnostics and imaging, regenerative medicine of the nervous system.

Improved feedback-controlled devices, advanced therapeutics including sensors, and release systems and pumps.

Autoimmune diseases are a result of the immune system being misdirected toward its host and have major and increasing unmet clinical needs.Herein, the range of drug delivery methods available and under development and how they can be useful to treat autoimmune diseases are discussed. Polymer delivery methods, as well as biological methods that include fusion proteins, targeted antibodies, recombinant viruses and cell products are compared.

Chronic wounds are associated with significant morbidity and mortality, and they represent a major medical and financial burden.Wound research faces multiple challenges in both pre-clinical and clinical research that slowed progress and development of efficacious therapies. Solutions to such challenges will provide new opportunities for improved study design in the future.