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Surgical face mask capable of identifying patients at risk of spreading viral infection
Temperature-sensitive Surgical Face Mask for Identifying at-risk Patients and Reducing Viral InfectionSummary & Detailed DescriptionHospitals need a quick and inexpensive method for triaging virus-infected patients while limiting exposure to others. A novel hospital face mask concept incorporates one or more thermochromatic materials to provide...
Published: 7/8/2021   |   Inventor(s): John Eisenbrey
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Category(s): Advanced Materials
Antibiotic Drug Release Clip (Co-owned with Drexel IIA 60-40 split expenses and revenue TJU Drexel)
Antibiotic Drug Release ClipBackground and SummaryThis device is an antibiotic drug release clip. The advantage of this device over the current practice is that antibiotic is released post removal of suture drains so no drug will leak out through these conduits. The application of ultrasound is completely non-invasive (unlike injection), so it does...
Published: 11/13/2019   |   Inventor(s): Noreen Hickok, Flemming Forsberg, John Eisenbrey, Alex Sevit, Steven Kurtz, Christopher Kepler
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Category(s): Drug Delivery, Medical Devices
Gas Filled Surfactant Microbubbles (Joint w/ Drexel. Drexel is the lead)
Surfactant Microbubbles and Process for Preparing and Methods of Using the SameBackground & Summary It has been well documented that chronically hypoxic tumor microenvironments result in both chemotherapy and radiation therapy resistance and pose a major hurdle for effective radiation therapy. In addition, therapy resistance is more pronounced at...
Published: 5/20/2024   |   Inventor(s): John Eisenbrey, Flemming Forsberg, Patrick O'Kane, Margaret Wheatley, Lorenzo Albala
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Category(s): Therapeutics, Cancer
Drug Loaded Contrast Agents: Combining Diagnosis and Therapy
PAGE TITLEOverviewPAGE SUMMARY This invention provides an improvement to methods of drug loading of ultrasound contrast agents. Echogenic drug-loaded polymer microcapsules, nanocapsules, or mixtures thereof produced by the method of the invention wherein the echogenic drug-loaded polymer microcapsules, nanocapsules, or mixtures thereof contain at least...
Published: 5/19/2022   |   Inventor(s): Margaret Wheatley, Dalia El-Sherif, John Eisenbrey, Odelia Burstein
Keywords(s): Diagnostic ultrasound
Category(s): Pharmaceuticals & Therapeutics, Medical Devices & Diagnostics, Materials & Chemicals, Materials & Chemicals > M-C: Polymers, Medical Devices & Diagnostics > MDD: Imaging, Pharmaceuticals & Therapeutics > Pharma: Drug Delivery
Enhancing radiation therapy sensitivity by overcoming tumor hypoxia
PAGE TITLEOverviewPAGE SUMMARYBiomedical engineers and physicians at Drexel University and The Thomas Jefferson University have developed a new method for targeted delivery of oxygen to solid tumors to enhance the sensitivity of radiation therapy. Focused radiation therapy is frequently used in the treatment of breast and numerous other cancers to...
Published: 8/27/2024   |   Inventor(s): Margaret Wheatley, Lorenzo Albala, Patrick O'kane, Flemming Forsberg, John Eisenbrey
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Category(s): Medical Devices & Diagnostics, Pharmaceuticals & Therapeutics, Materials & Chemicals, Materials & Chemicals > M-C: Polymers, Medical Devices & Diagnostics > MDD: Imaging, Pharmaceuticals & Therapeutics > Pharma: Drug Delivery