Sutureless Dressings for Ocular Repair (technical report)

We propose a novel treatment for ocular surface injuries that uses sutureless photochemical tissue bonding to attach a nanofiber-reinforced hydrogel to the eye. We have successfully created the film, loaded it with photoreactive dye, and measured its resistance to both hydrolytic and enzymatic degradation, proving the feasibility of the dressing in practical use.
Patent protection in the pharmaceutical industry is generally accepted as necessary to protect innovation, but it causes significant social loss due to monopoly pricing policies. This leaves many people without life-saving or life-improving medicines and promotes health inequality based on income stratification. The paper investigates the forces supporting and opposing a shift to a publicly funded research system, finding that the system could increase social welfare in theory but its implementation would meet significant resistance.

Variant Title: Alternative Model for a Globalized Pharmaceutical Industry. (STS research paper)
"School of Engineering and Applied Science."
"Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering."
Technical Advisor: Peter Norton.