{"66027":{"#nid":"66027","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Newly Patented Microneedle for Ocular Drug Delivery","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA goal of ophthalmology researchers is to deliver medication to the back of the eye in a selective and minimally invasive way. An Emory Eye Center scientist and two fellow researchers have investigated opportunities and have recently been awarded a U.S. patent for application of microneedle technology, designed to do just that.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2011-05-09 11:47:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:24:30","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Chris Carter","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.healthnewsdigest.com\/news\/New_Product_460\/Newly_Patented_Microneedle_for_Ocular_Drug_Delivery_-_Smaller_is_Better.shtml","dateline":{"date":"2011-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13080","name":"Henry F. Edelhauser"},{"id":"495","name":"Mark Prausnitz"},{"id":"13081","name":"Newly patented microneedle for ocular drug delivery"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}