Lancing drug reservoirs into subcutaneous fat to combat obesity and associated metabolic diseases

• Main Authors: Than, Aung, Duong, Phan Khanh, Zan, Ping, Liu, Junjie, Leow, Melvin Khee-Shing, Chen, Peng
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering; Transdermal Drug Delivery; Controlled Release
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147527
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Obesity is a serious epidemic health problem that can cause many other diseases including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Current approaches to combat obesity suffer from low effectiveness and adverse side effects. Here, a new self-administrable and minimally invasive transdermal drug d...