Innovation: Pills that deliver injection-only drugs

Next Steps

Rani’s pills will need to win U.S. regulatory approval as both a drug and a medical device, delivering the proper dose of medicine and making sure the tiny balloon passes harmlessly out of the patient’s body. John Yin, professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says the success of the complex process may also depend somewhat on the natural differences in patients’ intestinal tracts. Imran says he hopes to start human trials next year.