Lyndra said today that it won a 5-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a branch of the National Institutes of Health. The grant is slated to support the formulation and preclinical development of a once-weekly oral HIV treatment.
The Watertown, Mass.-based company makes use of a sustained-release technology developed by Robert Langer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A star-shaped pill loaded with drugs remains in the gastric cavity after it’s been swallowed for a pre-determined length of time. After the drugs have been released, the pill splits into small pieces and safely passes through the GI tract, according to Lyndra.
Get the full story at our sister site, Drug Delivery Business News.
The post Lyndra gets boost for drug delivery platform from U.S. allergy institute appeared first on MassDevice.