Dược sĩ NUS phát triển cách truyền thuốc không đau đớn

Cost-effective adhesive film placed on the inner cheek delivers drugs into the bloodstream effectively.

Researchers from NUS Department of Pharmacy - Ms Chua Qi Shan (left), Associate Professor Chan Sui Yung (centre), and Dr Tan Poh Leng (right) - showing samples of the oral films that they have developed for painless, efficient and discreet drug delivery.

Conventional ways of administering medication – by swallowing tablets, consuming bitter syrups, injections or rectal insertions – could be distressing and unpleasant for some patients, especially young children or the elderly. A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Chan Sui Yung, Honorary Fellow at the Department of Pharmacy under the Faculty of Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS), has recently developed easy-to-use oral films that enable painless, efficient, and discreet drug administration. 

This patient-friendly drug delivery method is now being commercialised through an NUS start-up PharLyfe+ founded by Assoc Prof Chan and her students, Dr Tan Poh Leng and Ms Chua Qi Shan, who are the Business Lead and Clinical Lead of PharLyfe+ respectively. The start-up is supported by NUS Graduate Research Innovation Programme (GRIP), a venture creation programme which encourages NUS researchers and postgraduate students to start their own deep-tech companies. 

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