Technology · Drug delivery
Who is working on drug delivery?
Drug delivery work runs from formulation chemistry to devices, and the right partner depends on whether your problem is the carrier, the release profile or the route. This page shows how much of that work the Helikon Research Graph holds and gives you a problem statement to run in Partner Search.
What the Helikon Research Graph holds on drug delivery
55,000+
researchers
170,000+
publications
9,500+
U.S. patents
Counts from the Helikon Research Graph on 8 October 2026; rounded down. Each figure is counted on its own, so they are not added together.
How these were counted
- Publications: papers whose title, author names or research topics match the keyword set below, the same text the Literature search reads.
- U.S. patents: granted U.S. patents whose text matches the keyword set and that carry at least one of these CPC subclasses: A61K, A61M. That is the Patents search with the CPC subclass field set.
- Researchers: people in the graph who authored a matching publication or are named inventors on a matching patent.
- Keyword set:
"drug delivery" OR "controlled release" OR "sustained release" OR "lipid nanoparticle" OR "nanoparticle delivery" OR "targeted delivery" OR "transdermal delivery" OR "drug carrier" OR "liposomal delivery" OR "mRNA delivery"
Try it on a real problem
Partner Search ranks researchers against a problem statement by what their publications, patents and profiles say. This one is ready to run; edit it to fit your project.
We need a formulation partner to design lipid nanoparticles that deliver an mRNA therapeutic to the liver with lower immunogenicity, and to scale the process for preclinical batches.Run this in Partner Search
Who is working on this
Pharmaceutics, bioengineering and chemical engineering groups at universities and medical schools, research hospitals, and company formulation and device teams. Inventors on delivery patents often sit in the same groups that publish the underlying chemistry.
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