MEDIA MENTION: ‘Vaccine refrigeration could become optional, thanks to Penn State team’
Feb 22, 2025
DATE: Feb. 22, 2025
WHERE: 90.5 WESA, ‘Vaccine refrigeration could become optional, thanks to Penn State team’
WHO: Scott Medina, the William and Wendy Korb Early Career Professor of Biomedical Engineering
WHAT: Pittsburgh’s NPR news station, known as 90.5 WESA, featured an article that discusses a Penn State research team’s work developing a novel system to store vaccines. Scott Medina, the William and Wendy Korb Early Career Professor of Biomedical Engineering and lead researcher on the DARPA-funded research project, is quoted in the article. Medina discusses the storage and financial difficulties associated with vaccine refrigeration, and how their research utilizing particular surfactant molecules and oil-based solutions could allow for unrefrigerated vaccine storage.
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