1. Health & Medicine Drug Delivery

3. What If? What if you never had to have another needle? Image: [email_address]

4. What If? What if you could prevent disease more easily in developing countries? Image: [email_address]

6. What If? What if there was an alternative to needles for delivery of vaccines and drugs like insulin?

8. Activity 1 Image: [email_address] Complete the Vaccination SWOT Analysis Activity to compare the strengths and weaknesses of conventional and transdermal methods of vaccination.

11. Animation Watch the Vaccination and Transdermal Patch Animations to improve your understanding of delivering vaccines and drugs via the skin.

12. Benefits Of Transdermal Patches Image: Courtesy Nanotechnology Victoria Ltd What are the benefits of transdermal delivery from a medical point of view?

16. Nano-Formulated Vaccines Trigger An Optimal Immune Response Image: Courtesy Nanotechnology Victoria Ltd, based on data from Intersuisse Bioscience, 2006 Data was generated by vaccinating mice with various sized particles, and then counting the number of activated immune cells. Vaccine particle size Immune response (number of activated immune cells per million total cells) 0 30nm 100nm 500nm 1000nm

20. Activity 2 Perform the Transdermal Patches Activity to gain an understanding of the history and development of transdermal patches.

21. Experiment 1 Transdermal Immunisation Perform the Modelling Transdermal Immunisation Experiment to better visualise this mode of delivering vaccines and drugs.

25. Activity 3 & Experiment 2 Perform the Structure and Function of Skin Activity and/or the Skin Observation Experiment to learn more about skin.

32. What If? What if you could stop the spread of HIV in the developing world? Image: [email_address] Photo taken outside a school in Zambia, Africa in 2005