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Mark Prausnitz is director of the Center for Drug Design, Development and Delivery at Georgia Tech. He works on something called microneedle patches to deliver vaccines. So far, he's developed patch vaccines for flu and measles, but the technology could be used for a COVID-19 vaccine as well.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/27/1001005379/a-vaccine-patch…
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Thu, 05/27/2021 - 12:00
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Mark Prausnitz, Georgia Tech Regents' professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, holds a vaccine patch containing microneedles that dissolve into the skin.
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