First lady Jill Biden toured the lab of Emory professor Philip Santangelo, the first recipient of funding from a new federal agency supporting the Biden Cancer Moonshot, and discussed his groundbreaking research to train the immune system to treat and cure cancers and other diseases.
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Vaxess Technologies, Inc., an innovative biotechnology company developing the MIMIX™ smart release patch, was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF award number 2030305) and a subcontract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (
DARPA), a branch of the US Department of Defense, to advance two separate projects aimed at developing mRNA-based vaccines and other medical countermeasures with the following features:
Refrigeration-free, using the patented Silk Protein Matrix stabilization technology
Single dose administration, enabled by MIMIX™ sustained release formulation
Painless application via MIMIX™ skin patch
Total funding awarded will be up to $2,000,000 if all milestones are achieved, including a $256,000 phase I SBIR grant from the NSF. Vaxess will use the funding to integrate mRNA-based vaccines and gene modulators provided through a collaboration with the San