{"id":942,"date":"2021-09-16T15:58:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T14:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/?p=942"},"modified":"2021-09-16T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T15:05:23","slug":"funding-secured-for-market-validation-of-drug-delivery-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/news\/funding-secured-for-market-validation-of-drug-delivery-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding secured for market validation of drug delivery technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have recently secured \u00a330,000 in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/councils\/innovate-uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Innovate UK<\/a> funding to explore commercialisation options for our drug delivery technology through the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.setsquared.co.uk\/programme\/icure-programme-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">ICURe programme<\/a>. The technology, developed jointly with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/engineering\/staff\/profile\/katarinanovakovic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Katarina Novakovic<\/a> (School of Engineering) and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/pharmacy\/people\/profile\/winglau.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Wing Man Lau<\/a> (School of Pharmacy), can deliver drugs through a transdermal microneedle patch continuously for over a month. The ICURe programme provides the project team with opportunities for enterpreneurship training and market validation, with a view to commercialising the technology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have recently secured \u00a330,000 in Innovate UK funding to explore commercialisation options for our drug delivery technology through the ICURe programme. The technology, developed jointly with Dr Katarina Novakovic (School of Engineering) and Dr Wing Man Lau (School of Pharmacy), can deliver drugs through a transdermal microneedle patch continuously for over a month. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/news\/funding-secured-for-market-validation-of-drug-delivery-technology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Funding secured for market validation of drug delivery technology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3965,"featured_media":943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funding","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/kengng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}