Oriel Therapeutics Inc.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Oriel Therapeutics Inc. hopes to overcome the limitations of current dry powder inhalers with an electronic device that aerosolizes dry powder drugs that waft in consistently precise amounts into the user's natural airstream.
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