Abstract
Current methods of drug dosing rely on physical parameters (such as sex, age and weight) that do not account for genetic and physiological differences among individual patients. These differences can greatly affect how drugs are processed in the body and can result in ineffective underdosing or toxic overdosing. Here, we describe a generalizable closed-loop system consisting of a biosensor, controller and infusion pump, and a model of drug pharmacokinetics that continuously monitors and adjusts the concentration of a given drug in the body. As proof of concept, we demonstrate that the system can maintain the concentration of doxorubicin—a widely used chemotherapy drug—in live rabbits and rats at any desired set point and in real time, while automatically compensating for large pharmacokinetic differences among individual animals and stabilizing dramatic perturbations arising from acute drug–drug interactions. The feedback-loop system opens up the possibility of tightly controlled, patient-specific dosing of chemotherapeutics and other drugs within narrow therapeutic windows. A closed-loop control system measures and adjusts the concentration of a chemotherapeutic in real time and maintains it within a predefined therapeutic window in both rabbits and rats.
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