First photo: Mark Prausnitz, Founder of Micron Biomedical
Second Photo: Mark Kendall, Founder of Vaxxas
little bit more on the history of microneedle array patches and interesting bedfellows...
NOTE: Both Mark Prausnitz, Founder of Micron Biomedical, and Mark Kendall, founder of Vaxxas each partnered with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In an article from Nov. 2011 (
https://www.chbe.gatech.edu/hg/item/72457), the Georgia Institute of Technology will receive funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables researchers worldwide to test unorthodox ideas that address persistent health and development challenges. Mark Prausnitz, Regents' professor in Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will pursue an innovative global health research project focused on using microneedle patches for the low-cost administration of polio vaccine through the skin in collaboration with researchers Steve Oberste and Mark Pallansch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Mark Kendall partnered globally, including with the World Health Organization, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.