Prof working with colleagues on COVID-19 vaccine

Thursday, April 16, 2020

A professor at Waterloo Engineering is a member of a multidisciplinary team working to develop a DNA-based vaccine for COVID-19.

Marc Aucoin, a professor of chemical engineering, is working on the complex project with Roderick Slavcev and Emmanuel Ho, both professors at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Waterloo.

The vaccine would be delivered using a nasal spray and serve as a therapeutic as well as stimulating the body to build immunity to COVID-19.

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