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Biomedical engineering approaches to enhance therapeutic delivery for malignant glioma (2020)
Journal Article
McCrorie, P., Vasey, C. E., Smith, S. J., Marlow, M., Alexander, C., & Rahman, R. (2020). Biomedical engineering approaches to enhance therapeutic delivery for malignant glioma. Journal of Controlled Release, 328, 917-931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.11.022

© 2020 We review the challenges of next-generation therapeutics for both systemic and localised delivery to brain tumours and discuss how recent engineering advances may be used to enhance brain penetration of systemic delivery therapies. The unmet c... Read More about Biomedical engineering approaches to enhance therapeutic delivery for malignant glioma.

Etoposide and olaparib polymer-coated nanoparticles within a bioadhesive sprayable hydrogel for post-surgical localised delivery to brain tumours (2020)
Journal Article
McCrorie, P., Mistry, J., Taresco, V., Lovato, T., Fay, M., Ward, I., …Rahman, R. (2020). Etoposide and olaparib polymer-coated nanoparticles within a bioadhesive sprayable hydrogel for post-surgical localised delivery to brain tumours. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 157, 108-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpb.2020.10.005

Glioblastoma is a malignant brain tumour with a median survival of 14.6 months from diagnosis. Despite maximal surgical resection and concurrent chemoradiotherapy, reoccurrence is inevitable. To try combating the disease at a stage of low residual tu... Read More about Etoposide and olaparib polymer-coated nanoparticles within a bioadhesive sprayable hydrogel for post-surgical localised delivery to brain tumours.

Intradermal delivery of imiquimod using polymeric microneedles for basal cell carcinoma (2020)
Journal Article
Sabri, A. H., Cater, Z., Gurnani, P., Ogilvie, J., Segal, J., Scurr, D. J., & Marlow, M. (2020). Intradermal delivery of imiquimod using polymeric microneedles for basal cell carcinoma. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 589, Article 119808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpharm.2020.119808

Despite being one of the most efficacious drugs used in the treatment of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), imiquimod has limited cutaneous permeation. The current work presents the development of polyvinylpyrrolidone-co-vinyl acetate (PVPVA) microneedles l... Read More about Intradermal delivery of imiquimod using polymeric microneedles for basal cell carcinoma.

Intradermal Delivery of an Immunomodulator for Basal Cell Carcinoma; Expanding the Mechanistic Insight into Solid Microneedle-Enhanced Delivery of Hydrophobic Molecules (2020)
Journal Article
Sabri, A., Ogilvie, J., McKenna, J., Segal, J., Scurr, D., & Marlow, M. (2020). Intradermal Delivery of an Immunomodulator for Basal Cell Carcinoma; Expanding the Mechanistic Insight into Solid Microneedle-Enhanced Delivery of Hydrophobic Molecules. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 17(8), 2925–2937. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00347

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common cutaneous malignancy in humans. One of the most efficacious drugs used in the management of BCC is the immunomodulator, imiquimod. However, imiquimod has physiochemical properties that limit its permeatio... Read More about Intradermal Delivery of an Immunomodulator for Basal Cell Carcinoma; Expanding the Mechanistic Insight into Solid Microneedle-Enhanced Delivery of Hydrophobic Molecules.

Characterisation of mechanical insertion of commercial microneedles (2020)
Journal Article
Sabri, A. H., Cater, Z., Ogilvie, J., Scurr, D. J., Marlow, M., & Segal, J. (2020). Characterisation of mechanical insertion of commercial microneedles. Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 58, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jddst.2020.101766

The protection provided by the human skin is mostly attributed to the stratum corneum. However, this barrier also limits the range of molecules that can be delivered into and across the skin. One of the methods to overcome this physiological barrier... Read More about Characterisation of mechanical insertion of commercial microneedles.