Haque Ishfaq PhD Researcher Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA); School of Computer Science McGill University, Canada @haqueishfaq Samara Sharmeen Resident Surgeon VIVANTES Netzwerk für Gesundheit GmbH RWTH Aachen University, Germany @ssharmeen Hassan Sami Adnan Medical Researcher Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University World Health Organization (WHO) @hsami Hassan Saad Ifti DPhil Researcher Department of Engineering Science University of Oxford, United Kingdom @saadifti Atia Amin Researcher Department of Biology University of South Dakota, United States @atiaamin1 Simulation Model for 3D-printed Drug Development

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Print your tablet at home… A dream?

Patients over 60 need 15 to 20 tablets a day on average.

Combining multiple APIs in Side view Cross section

Drug release profiles

What can be a possible solution?

A fluid dynamic approach:
 drug delivery though porous scaffolds

Flow through porous scaffolds p (internal) p (external) < p (internal)

Gauss-Seidel iterative algorithm NumPy implementation

Pressure distribution across table wall

Limitations in printing resolution Capel, A., Rimington, R., Lewis, M., & Christie, S. (2018). 3D printing for chemical, pharmaceutical and biological applications. Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2(12), 422-436. doi: 10.1038/ s41570-018-0058-y pore size in microns (10-6 m)

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