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Electrospinning of biomolecules and cell-derived bodies
1  University College London

Abstract:

Increasingly, the most potent emerging medicines are based not on small-molecule active ingredients but instead on large biomolecules such as peptides and proteins, or even on cells and sub-cellular components. These are difficult to process using traditional pharmaceutical processing approaches because their three-dimension tertiary structure is easily degraded, for instance by the application of heat in spray drying. Since electrospinning avoids the use of heat, it offers a potential route to develop stable and potent medicines from these active ingredients. This presentation will describe recent results in the production of electrospun formulations of protein drugs and extracellular vesicles.

Keywords: electrospinning; protein; biologic; extracellular vesicle
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