SONOPHORESIS SMARTPATCH

A needle-free, wearable device using ultrasound to painlessly deliver macromolecular drugs through the skin, enhancing patient comfort, treatment efficiency, and sustainability.

Administering macromolecular drugs, like insulin or heparin, often requires invasive methods such as needle-injections or cannula-infusions, causing discomfort. Alternatives to needles struggle to transfer large molecules through the skin, making treatments less efficient. A non-invasive solution is needed. In this context, the EIC-funded SONOPHORESIS SMARTPATCH project developed a needle-free wearable that uses ultrasound waves (sonophoresis) to temporarily enlarge skin pores, enabling the safe and efficient delivery of multiple different drugs. It offers a wearable, sustainable and standardisable administration of subcutaneously delivered drugs, increasing patient comfort and therefore adherence, to improve treatment results and reduce costs and waste.