💊 Nano Drug Delivery System
Design nanoparticles that navigate the bloodstream and deliver drugs precisely to tumor cells
🤔 What Is Nano Drug Delivery?
Nano drug delivery uses particles between 1-500 nanometers to carry medications through the bloodstream directly to diseased cells. Instead of flooding the entire body with drugs (causing side effects), nanoparticles act as tiny guided missiles — navigating blood vessels, slipping through leaky tumor vasculature via the EPR effect, and releasing their payload exactly where needed. The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna proved this technology works at global scale using lipid nanoparticles.
Why does this matter? Traditional chemotherapy kills healthy cells alongside cancer cells, causing devastating side effects. Nanoparticle delivery can increase tumor drug concentration by 10-100x while reducing off-target toxicity by 80%. This means more effective treatment with fewer side effects — potentially transforming cancer therapy, gene editing (CRISPR delivery), and treatments for brain diseases that require crossing the blood-brain barrier.