PolyPrint: better therapies, fewer side effects

Medicines such as tablets or capsules usually come off the production lines of pharmaceutical companies in large quantities with a standardized mode of action. This can be problematic for patients who require specially tailored medication – for example, people with cancer, children or older people who need different dosages.

3D printing can help here: By printing with polymer drug filaments, medicines can be tailored more appropriately to different patients. For our video report, we visited the start-up goatAM, which was founded at Cologne University of Applied Sciences and aims to commercialize a printing technology for pharmaceuticals.

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