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UConn startup DIANT bags license for continuous nanoparticle manufacturing tech

UConn | November 20, 2020

Consistent assembling has just begun to override customary group handling in the domain of tablet creation. The following region due for an assembling update? Nanoparticle drug conveyance frameworks, one startup thinks—and it's currently prepared to pitch its foundation to drugmakers.

The University of Connecticut as of late authorized its ceaseless nanoparticle fabricating innovation to DIANT Pharma, a startup helped to establish by the stage's designers Antonio Costa, Ph.D., and Diane Burgess, Ph.D.

The high-throughput framework can possibly spare tidy up room space, bring down the quantity of preparing steps and diminish the quantity of bunches created every year. Since the stage is persistent, it should empower makers to hop in the event that anything turns out badly, redirecting or eliminating just a little bit of the item instead of rejecting a whole group, Costa, CEO at DIANT and partner research teacher at UConn, said in a meeting.

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