Duquesne University’s Nanomedicine Manufacturing Laboratory (NML) is taking tiny particles and using them to help remedy major health issues.
The lab, led by Duquesne Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics Dr. Jelena Janjic, was the first to create pain nanomedicine for trauma and surgical pain, which could lead to reducing the use of opioids for recovery. The NML also developed the first oxygen carrier with imaging clinical grade agents for real-time tracking during organ/limb preservation, which may reduce organ rejection and lead to improving transplantation. Duquesne University’s Nanomedicine Manufacturing Laboratory (NML) is taking tiny particles and using them to help remedy major health issues.
So it wasn’t much of a surprise when the NML was tapped to participate with other institutions to make whole eye transplants a reality. More than 40 scientists, doctors and industry experts are joining together for the $56 million project from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts (THEA) program. Jeffrey Goldberg, MD, PhD, Blumenkranz Smead professor and chair of ophthalmology at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford, serves as the principal investigator.
