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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Since 1989, Edith Mathiowitz, professor of molecular pharmacology, physiology and biotechnology, has been issued 30 patents, many of which relate to her work on the development of an insulin pill that could improve the treatment of diabetes. For her work, Mathiowitz, along with Professor of Physics Leon Cooper, was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors last month.
Mathiowitz?s research focuses on finding a way to deliver proteins orally to the body. By encapsulating the insulin molecule with nanoparticles, Mathiowitz and her team were able to increase the efficiency with which the protein was delivered to rats in lab trials. Normally, if a protein such as insulin is given orally, stomach acid will hinder its function by degrading it, she said.
http://www.browndailyherald.com/2014/01/22/profs-inducted-inventors-academy/
Mathiowitz?s research focuses on finding a way to deliver proteins orally to the body. By encapsulating the insulin molecule with nanoparticles, Mathiowitz and her team were able to increase the efficiency with which the protein was delivered to rats in lab trials. Normally, if a protein such as insulin is given orally, stomach acid will hinder its function by degrading it, she said.
http://www.browndailyherald.com/2014/01/22/profs-inducted-inventors-academy/