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Minghui Chai:
Patenting dendrimer applications in drug
delivery
Chemistry
Assistant professor of chemistry Minghui
Chai has received a provisional patent for
her work synthesizing and characterizing
dendrimers and their interaction with drugs
and dyes. She has received 12 grants during
her professional career, including five
current awards totaling more than $250,000.
Significance
Chai and her student researcher are the
first to put L-Dopa – a drug important to
people with Parkinson’s disease – into a
dendritic form at the molecular level.
What are the
possibilities for this research?
The use of the dendritic form allows the
fabrication and controlled release of a
drug. This is expected to have great
potential for new drugs and the
pharmaceutical industry
as a whole.
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