Hyungil Jung
Professor, Yonsei University, South Korea
Title: A novel and minimally-invasive drug delivery system via dissolving microneedle
Biography
Biography: Hyungil Jung
Abstract
Transdermal drug delivery is regarded as an important route with high potential for drug delivery to overcome limitations of oral delivery and hypodermic injections. Among various delivery methods available, microneedles have gained interest due to their ability in delivering drugs with a high efficacy compared with topical application. Microneedles are referred to microscopic needles that are capable of delivering pharmaceutical compounds, proteins and even cosmetics into the skin in a minimally invasive manner. Especially, dissolving microneedle patches contain micron scale dissolvable needles that are capable of delivering encapsu¬lated compounds into the skin without causing any pain. Therefore, dissolving microneedles are expected to replace the current hypodermic injections in near future. Beside cosmetics and beauty dissolving microneedle patches that are already in the market, we have developed insulin microneedle patches that are capable of delivering the required dosage of insulin to mouse and are currently improving this system for clinical trial tests. We are continuously working on developing limitations of microneedle based delivery system and that makes them as one of the fastest growing dissolving microneedle research groups in the world with various novel researches in this field.