Wayne State research funded by NIH may develop next generation of vaccines against autoimmune diseases

A major barrier to treating autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes is the lack of methods to deliver the therapeutics to specific sites such as the lymph nodes. Haipend Liu, assistant professor of chemical engineering and materials science, is working to address this issue with a recently awarded $475,752 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.

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