Mag Shell is a biodegradable device, injectable into the posterior chamber of the eye for the treatment of retinal pathologies, such as maculopathy, able to release precise drug doses at predefined time intervals.

     Injection  - release                                                                                                                Shells

Mag Shell is made of biodegradable magnesium layers separated by drug doses. Drug will be released at therapeutic times after the magnesium shells erosion. The device will be completely autonomous and totally resorbable by the human body.

Mag Shell will reduce the distress of monthly injections to patients and the burden to clinicians and to the Health System. Mag Shell will cover a long period therapeutic need with a single injection, increasing the number of patients not leaving the cure and so dramatically reducing the costs sustained by the Health System.

Mag Shell is a patent application of Politecnico di Milano, invented by Prof. Federica Boschetti and Dr. Marco Ferroni of the Department of Chemistry, Material and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, and Dr. Matteo Cereda, MD, retinal specialist. The projected is partially funded by the Italian Society of Ophthalmology.