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48 built a number of companies that have addressed multiple problems , from lockboxes used by real estate agents to full-body airport scanners used across the country and the world , and radically improved treatments for chronic pain .
While I ’ m proud of all my inventions , today I ’ m on a mission to solve one of the biggest challenges in medicine : replacing painful injections with a pill to treat hundreds of millions of patients with chronic disease . When I learned that pharma companies have tried and failed for more than 50 years to convert biologic injections into pills , I saw that as a juicy problem to solve . The main challenge is that the gut hosts enzymes designed to break down proteins . If ingested , biologic drugs are degraded before they can be absorbed . That ’ s why you haven ’ t seen oral insulin or oral Humira yet . At Rani Therapeutics , we think we have solved the riddle with the RaniPill™ capsule .
Could you tell me a little about Rani Therapeutics and your new robotic pill ? What advantages does the pill
SEPTEMBER 2019