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Ana Jaklenec elected to the National Academy of Inventors

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced the election of more than 160 people to their 2023 class of fellows, including two members of the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Daniel Anderson and Ana Jaklenec.

The highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors, election to the NAI recognizes individuals who have created or facilitated outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society… Continue reading.

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Metal-Organic Nanoparticles Enable Better Vaccine Delivery, Stronger Immune Response

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and elsewhere have published a paper in Science Advances that describes a type of nanoparticle for delivering vaccines called a metal organic framework (MOF) that can potentially provoke...

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MIT’s Tiny Technologies Go to Washington

Cancer nanomedicine showcased at the White House Demo Day On November 7, a team from the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine showed a Washington D.C. audience several examples of how nanotechnologies developed at MIT can transform the detection and...

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Microneedle Patch Printer Enables On-Demand Vaccine Manufacturing

The portable instrument could increase global access to vaccines by simplifying their storage, distribution, and administration. Researchers from the lab of Robert Langer, ScD, at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts...

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Microparticles could be used to deliver “self-boosting” vaccines

Most vaccines, from measles to Covid-19, require a series of multiple shots before the recipient is considered fully vaccinated. To make that easier to achieve, MIT researchers have developed microparticles that can be tuned to deliver their payload at...

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