This really is basically a platform device that I hope to be able to eventually explore all these different applications.

Kasia Sawicka

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Logistically speaking, if you think of a rapidly spreading pandemic, having the ability to vaccinate a large number of people is really the only way we know to date how to deal with it. If you need to train emergency personnel, that presents a problem. What if we had a way to vaccinate people by just telling them to stick on a Band-Aid? because the payload can be delivered to areas where it’s needed rapidly— no special handling required— then applied to the skin by someone whose sophistication is limited to that of applying a Band-Aid… it becomes possible to address these major challenges that have long bedeviled the health care profession in delivering vaccines to underserved areas.

The real-world [vaccine] application of this could potentially really have an impact, then I start daydreaming about other possibilities and if you can somehow add to the treatment of cancer or any other disease, adapting your technology in immunotherapies, the door is only cracked open now, but it’s one I hope to run through eventually.

The protein is a 3-D structure with the ability to fold and unfol... by Kasia Sawicka

The protein is a 3-D structure with the ability to fold and unfold.

Having these highly porous 3-D structures that are composed of nanofibers that are approximately 1,000 times the width of a hair produces a huge surface area of reactivity between the skin and patch, and allows for more of an interaction.

What we’re hoping, what if instead of all those trips, you only had to go for a follow-up and in between apply a patch to wear 24 hours and eventually you would become de-sensitive and no longer have to spend money to treat symptoms.

I feel like ever since the [Collegiate Inventor’s Competition] happened, everything has been, ‘the craziest thing just happened.’ I don’t even know where the baseline is.