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“Delivering Asthma Drugs With Nanoparticles” – on Focus on Allergy
Despite medical advancements in drugs and delivery devices for asthma and allergy sufferers, some patients are not getting appropriate dosages. But new advances are being worked on that could improve care for many through nanotechnology. Rob Neville, executive chairman of Savara Pharmaceuticals, tells the Chicago Tribune's Bruce Japsen about the use of nanotechnology as an emerging way to administer drugs more effectively for improved respiratory care.
 Bruce Japsen has been a healthcare business reporter for the Chicago Tribune since May of 1998. Mr. Japsen covers pharmaceutical and device makers, economic issues, managed-care companies, doctor practices and other physician issues. He has covered everything from the Vioxx-product liability trials and controversies involving the foray of Walgreens and Wal-Mart into retail medicine, to bird flu vaccine production and stem cell research. In addition to the regular healthcare business stories he writes, he has a regular Thursday column in the Tribune business section and is a regular on WGN radio and television, CBS-owned WBBM-News radio 780 and Tribune-owned CLTV. Reach his work at chicagotribune.com or follow him on Twitter.
Rob Neville is executive chairman of Savara Pharmaceuticals. He is formerly the founder and CEO of the Austin Technology Incubator-based Evity, Inc. He later founded the management consulting company Clockwise Consulting. Clockwise partnered with local biotech companies. Rob holds a post-graduate engineering degree from the University of Natal, South Africa.
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