'Medicines on Demand' advanced in ARPA-H Dash
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Dr. Rao's idea 'Medicines on Demand' advanced to the first round in the ARPA-H Dash to Accelerate Health Outcomes.
Read the new paper about this idea : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871678423000183
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ABOUT THE IDEA - 'Medicines on Demand'
Title: Medicines on Demand
Proposed Health Transformation: Manufacturing protein-based therapeutics at the point of care in hours so that they are immediately affordably available to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Current Implementation: Currently drugs are manufactured in large, expensive centralized facilities (think of a Pfizer, Merck or Genentech plant). Drugs must be made over several weeks and shipped refrigerated.
What's New: Our disruptive innovation will empower communities by allowing manufacturing locally, as and when needed. Distributed manufacturing will speed up drug and vaccine development and delivery.
Evidence Statement: This paper demonstrates the manufacturing of several diagnostic therapeutic and vaccine candidate proteins in under 24 hours from a suitcase size device.
Evidence Citation: Point-of-care production of therapeutic proteins of good-manufacturing-practice quality https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-018-0259-1
Posted: April 19, 2023, 2:30 PM
