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Molecular Design Meets Material Science

At Ripple, we discovered that with a small amount of chemical engineering, drugs can be transformed into implantable prodrug materials.

These remarkable materials undergo surface erosion which results in release of the active drug.

By tuning surface area and implant geometry, drug dose and duration can be precisely designed to meet the therapeutic need. 



The proprietary Epidel® prodrugs have unique properties that allow them to be processed into standalone drug delivery implants (e.g. intravitreal implants, micro/nanoparticles, etc.) or as coatings on medical devices.