Vietnamese scientist develops skin patch vaccine technology
By Nguyen Xuan January 26, 2021 | 08:30 pm GMT+7
A close up of microneedles on a vaccine patch developed by Nguyen Duc Thanh. Photo courtesy of Thanh.
Dr. Nguyen Duc Thanh and researchers at the University of Connecticut (UCONN) have come up with an injection-free, single-use and self-administered microneedle vaccine patch.
The vaccine technology is the brain child of the 37-year-old assistant professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at UCONN in the U.S.
Six years ago, Thanh began doing post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he and other members of a scientist group sponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation developed a vaccine technology that only requires single administration instead of multiple injections.