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On-Command Drug Delivery System via Carbon Nanotubes for Cancer or Other Diseases (Case 2091)

Principal Investigator: Jingming Xu, PhD, Professor School of Engineering Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: Targeted therapies that require fewer drug doses/volumes and are non-toxic to normal cells have been the treatment goal for cancer and many other diseases. Various nanostructures and materials have been use...

Published: Nov 14, 2012 | Inventor(s): Jingming Xu, Chia-Hsuan Wu, Jin Ho Kim, Cong Cao, John Marshall

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Category(s): Diagnostics, Drug Delivery, Metabolic diseases, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Oncology, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

A New Method for Blotless TEM Imaging ( Case 2066)

Anubhav Tripathi, PhD, Associate Professor School of Engineering Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a useful imaging technique whereby a beam of electrons creates an image as it transmits through an ultra‐thin specimen. The benefit of this imaging technique is that TEM syst...

Published: Aug 9, 2012 | Inventor(s): Anubhav Tripathi, Jinkee Lee, Arijit Bose

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Category(s): Devices, Engineering and Sensors, Instruments, Nanotechnology, Research Tools, Software

Improved Drug Delivery of Doxyrubicin - Optimized Polymeric Nanosphere Encapsulation of Small Hydrophilic Therapeutics (Case 2030)

Principal Investigator: Edith Mathiowitz, PhD, Professor Department of Bio Med Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology & Biotechnology Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: While it is possible to encapsulate small hydrophilic therapeutics in polymers using methods such as solvent e...

Published: Aug 8, 2012 | Inventor(s): Edith Mathiowitz, Roshni Patel, Daniel Cho

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Category(s): Drug Delivery, Nanotechnology, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Therapeutics

Advanced, Wireless, Implantable Neural Recording and Stimulation Microsystem (Case 2032)

Principal Investigator: Arto Nurmikko, PhD, Professor School of Engineering Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: With the advent of advanced materials, MEMs, microfluidics, nanotechnology and interdisciplinary research programs between engineering fields and the biomedical sciences, miniaturized, next generation devices...

Published: Jun 20, 2012 | Inventor(s): Arto Nurmikko

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Category(s): Devices, Diagnostics, Drug Delivery, Engineering and Sensors, Metabolic diseases, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Oncology, Research Tools, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

Improved Method of Manufacturing Nanowire Nanoarray Memories (Case 1709)

Principal Investigator: John Savage, PhD, Professor Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: Methods have been developed for growing nanowires (NWs) and carbon nanotubes (NTs) with diameters of a few nanometers and for assembling NWs into nanoarrays, crossbars containing two orthogonal se...

Published: Jun 20, 2012 | Inventor(s): John Savage, Eric Rachlin, Andre Dehon, Charles Lieber

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Category(s): Devices, Diagnostics, Engineering and Sensors, Environmental, Metabolic diseases, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Oncology, Research Tools, Software, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

QD Color Tunable Laser (Case 2083)

Principal Investigator: Arto Nurmikko, PhD, Professor School of Engineering Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: Semiconductor lasers have not yet been able to penetrate the full visible spectrum using a single material system for red, green and blue (RGB) in a seamless and optimized way. There is a need for advanced fu...

Published: Jun 11, 2012 | Inventor(s): Arto Nurmikko, Cuong Dang, Joonhee Lee

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Category(s): Engineering and Sensors, Nanotechnology, Research Tools, Devices

Robust, Stable and ‘Smart’ Microstructure Drug Delivery for Controlled Release (Case 2035)

Principal Investigator: Edith Mathiowitz, PhD, Professor Department of Bio Med Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology & Biotechnology Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: Advances in polymer and drug delivery sciences have led to the evolution of engineered fibers f...

Published: Jun 11, 2012 | Inventor(s): Edith Mathiowitz, Richard Hopkins, Danya Lavin (formerly Decoteau)

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Category(s): Devices, Drug Delivery, Metabolic diseases, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Oncology, Research Tools, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Therapeutics

Improved Fabrication of Novel Metal Nanoparticles and Aerogels (Case 1052)

Principal Investigator: William Riser, PhD, Professor Department of Chemistry Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: An aerogel is a gel with a lower density than the fully condensed form of the material that comprises the gel. Typically, aerogels are produced by replacing the liquid of a gel with air or anoth...

Published: Jun 11, 2012 | Inventor(s): William Risen, Xipeng Liu, Chunhua Yao, Yu Zhu

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Category(s): Devices, Diagnostics, Engineering and Sensors, Nanotechnology, Research Tools

Improved Approach to Ultrasonic Sample Characterization Using an Optical Mask (Case 1403)

Principal Investigator: Humphrey Maris, PhD, Professor Department of Physics Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: In non-destructive, optically-based material analysis and characterization systems, light pulses of picosecond and sub-picosecond duration generate a localized stress in a sample that result in propagating ...

Published: Jun 11, 2012 | Inventor(s): Humphrey Maris

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Category(s): Devices, Engineering and Sensors, Instruments, Nanotechnology, Research Tools

Micronized Hydrophobic Agents/Drugs for Superior Performance Medical and Otherwise (Case 1429)

Principal Investigator: Edith Mathiowitz, PhD, Professor Department of Bio Med Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology & Biotechnology Brown University Providence, RI Brief Description: Many hydrophobic agents, active and non-active, have utility in a variety of in vivo settings – medical and otherwise. Although techniques exist for ...

Published: Jun 11, 2012 | Inventor(s): Edith Mathiowitz

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Category(s): Devices, Diagnostics, Drug Delivery, Energy, Environmental, Metabolic diseases, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Oncology, Research Tools, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Therapeutics

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