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Development of a miniaturised drug delivery system with wireless power transfer and communication.

Smith S, Tang TB, Terry JG, Stevenson JT, Flynn BW, Reekie HM, Murray AF, Gundlach AM, Renshaw D, Dhillon B, Ohtori A, Inoue Y, Walton AJ

Institute of Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, School of Engineering and Electronics, Scottish Microelectronics Centre, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. stewart.smith@ed.ac.uk

The development of an implantable system designed to deliver drug doses in a controlled manner over an extended time period is reported. Key performance parameters are the physical size, the power consumption and also the ability to perform wireless communications to enable the system to be externally controlled and interrogated. The system has been designed to facilitate wireless power transfer, which is very important for miniaturisation as it removes the need for a battery.

Published 3 September 2007 in IET Nanobiotechnol, 1(5): 80-6.
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