Dr. Brian B. Rodrigues has developed and tested a novel heart-specific drug delivery system that could help protect people with diabetes from heart disease. Dr. Rodrigues demonstrated that when a drug is attached to very small magnetic beads, the drug will localize specifically to the heart when a magnet is placed directly above it. These results show great promise for the development of a new way to deliver drugs to specific places in the body where the drug is most needed, such as the heart or kidney.