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Local drugmaker Medigen is partnering with a US biotechnology company to develop a COVID-19 vaccine patch, for which human clinical trials could begin as early as next year, the firm announced on Monday.
Medigen said it has since last year been collaborating with Vaxess Technologies, which is developing a smart-release microneedle patch, to use the technology for COVID-19 vaccination, Medigen said in a statement.
The patch would be based on the Medigen COVID-19 vaccine, which is a protein subunit vaccine containing a recombinant spike protein (S-2P) antigen.
Trials on animals have found that vaccination with the microneedle patch was safe and delivered a
/ Staff writer, with CNALocal drugmaker Medigen is partnering with a US biotechnology company to develop a COVID-19 vaccine patch, for which human clinical trials could begin as early as next year, the firm announced on Monday.
WASHINGTON Effective vaccines, without a needle: Since the start of the COVID pandemic, researchers have doubled down on efforts to create patches that deliver life-saving drugs painlessly to the skin, a development that could revolutionise medicine.The technique could help save children’s tears at doctors’ offices, and help people who have a phobia of syringes.Beyond that,