How often do vaccine trials hit paydirt?

Study: Vaccines find more success in development than any other kind of drug, but have been relatively neglected in recent decades.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
May 27, 2020 ~8 min

MIT’s Love Lab developing a Covid-19 vaccine to potentially reach billions

Manufacturability is key to producing a widely available, affordable vaccine.

Ashley Belanger | School of Engineering • mit
April 22, 2020 ~8 min


Storing medical information below the skin’s surface

Specialized dye, delivered along with a vaccine, could enable “on-patient” storage of vaccination history.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
Dec. 18, 2019 ~7 min

Delivery system can make RNA vaccines more powerful

Vaccines packaged in novel nanoparticles could offer a new way to fight cancer and infectious diseases.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 30, 2019 ~5 min

Squeezing cells to cure diseases

Startup SQZ Biotech aims to open a new path in immunotherapy with its cell-compressing technique.

Zach Winn | MIT News Office • mit
Oct. 31, 2018 ~8 min

A single-injection vaccine for the polio virus | MIT News

Nanoparticles could offer a new way to help eradicate the disease worldwide.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
May 21, 2018 ~6 min

Deploying therapeutic payloads to cells | MIT News

Mark Bathe develops molecular packages for targeted delivery of drugs, vaccines, and gene-editing tools.

Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent • mit
June 4, 2017 ~6 min

Progress toward a Zika vaccine | MIT News

Researchers program RNA nanoparticles that could protect against the virus.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
March 29, 2017 ~8 min


MIT undertakes Grand Challenge for innovation in global vaccine manufacturing | MIT News

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awards MIT, University College London, and University of Kansas $17.6M for development and production of low-cost vaccines.

Koch Institute • mit
Feb. 22, 2017 ~6 min

Benefiting human health through engineering | MIT News

PhD student Anasuya Mandal’s microneedle device could painlessly monitor the immune system.

Catherine Curro Caruso | MIT News Office • mit
Sept. 12, 2016 ~8 min

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