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Novel Surgical Drill Attachment for Improved Cranial Implant Affixation

Unmet Need: Traditionally, re-insertion or replacement of bone flaps removed during neurosurgery involves fixing the bone flap to the skull surface via titanium plates and screws, which is commonly associated with craniofacial asymmetry, scalp pain, possible extrusion and other post-operative complications. Technology Overview: Johns Hopkins researchers...

Published: 6/28/2024 | Inventor(s): Chad Gordon, Owen Friesen, Cristina Romany, Jing Lin Cui, Ku Chien Lin, Nathan Scott, Deborah Weidman

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Category(s): Clinical and Disease Specializations > Surgery

MRI-Compatible CED Drug Delivery to Treat and Monitor Brain Diseases including GBM

Unmet Need: Convection-enhanced delivery (CED) is a direct medicine delivery technique that has shown great promise to effectively deliver drugs across the blood brain barrier (BBB) to treat glioblastoma (GBM) and other neurological diseases. However, there still is an urgent need to adapting CED to allow for chronic out-patient use that avoids external...

Published: 6/27/2024 | Inventor(s): Chad Gordon, Jon Weingart, Victor Dadfar, Daniel Huang, Zhou Li, Victoria Fang, Hadley VanRenterghem, Deborah Weidman, Angela Lu, SeYeon Choi

Keywords(s): CNS and Neurological Disorders, Disease Indication, Drug Delivery Device, Implanted Device, Implants, Therapeutic Devices, Therapeutics

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Medical Devices > Therapeutic Devices, Clinical and Disease Specializations > Neurology, Technology Classifications > Therapeutic Modalities