Developing a microneedle patch for vaccine delivery

The COVID-19 pandemic has renewed longstanding interest in alternatives to injection for vaccine delivery. We caught up with Thanh Nguyen to find out more about a new microneedle patch that promises to deliver multiple doses of vaccine with a single application.

Thanh Nguyen is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut (UConn), a position he has held since 2016. He completed his postdoc with Professor Robert Langer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he developed a platform technology that can create three-dimensional microstructures of biomaterials such as biodegradable safe polymers (used in many FDA-approved devices) for applications in vaccine/drug delivery and medical implants. He obtained his PhD from Princeton University in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (2013).

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