David W. Grainger, Ph.D.

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David W. Grainger, Ph.D.
Miniaturized diagnostic and drug delivery devices

• Eccles Presidential Endowed Chair and Professor
  of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry,
  and Bioengineering, University of Utah
• david.grainger_at_utah.edu

Improved biomedical devices and biotechnology
Poster P13
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Grainger research themesImproved biomedical
device performance with biotechnology
combination implant devices drug delivery
methods surface modification and analysis
tissue integration and biomaterials analysis

• NIH- and industry-funded programs in microarray
  bioassays, biocompatibility, drug delivery
  (proteins, vaccines), materials
• 20 years of biomaterials fabrication, design and
  innovation, active international advisory board
  and biotech consulting experience, IP development
• Improved biomedical device performance,
  diagnostic device innovation, drug delivery goals
• Miniaturization and scaling issues and challenges

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Collaborations have produced over 30 of my
research publications

• Possible areas of overlap and interest
• biomedical device functional improvements and
  analyses
• next-generation miniaturized diagnostic and
  bioassay devices
• integration of drug delivery and implant
  devices
• surface modification to improve biological
  performance
• sub-micron sized biomaterials and drug delivery
  systems

David Grainger david.grainger_at_utah.edu