Vaxxas is aiming to replace needles and syringes with its nanopatch.
Vaxxas, a Queensland University spin-out, has developed technology which could mean vaccine delivery via needles and syringes could soon be a thing of the past.
The World Economic Forum has now named the company a Technology Pioneer, along with 23 other startups such as the Raspberry Pi Foundation, makers of the eponymous cheap computer. Mark Kendall, inventor of the technology, will present at the forum’s next annual meeting in January 2015.
The nanopatch, based on research at the university’s Australian…