VCU Thinks Small for COVID-19 Innovations

1/6/21

By Gary Robertson, VirginiaBusiness

Guizhi “Julian” Zhu, an assistant professor at the VCU School of Pharmacy, is developing a fingernail-sized vaccine patch. Photo by Shandell Taylor

The novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has upended life across the globe, but it also has spurred innovation and invention.

At Virginia Commonwealth University, two researchers have been working on projects that, if successful, might have far-reaching applications for preventing and detecting COVID-19.

A vaccine patch the size of a fingernail has the attention of Guizhi “Julian” Zhu, an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics at the VCU School of Pharmacy.

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