Pharmacist explores delivering vaccines directly to white blood cells

Delivering vaccines directly into the body’s immune cells could make the preventions even more effective, according to new research from a pharmaceutical scientist and professor at West Virginia University in Morgantown.

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In his research, Sharan Kumar Reddy Bobbala, PhD, used lipid nanoparticles to deliver adjuvants, which are molecules in vaccines that work to stimulate the immune system — directly to white blood cells. 

This method, Dr. Bobbala said in the Feb. 21 news release, could “allow enhanced and more durable immune responses with lower vaccine doses.”

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