Clinical trials for vaccines: how they work and what's involved for volunteers. Testing novel vaccines in humans is the first step on a long route to licensure. Clinical trials are long, expensive but essential procedures designed to confirm both a vaccines safety but also its effectiveness. Here we discuss clinical trial design and the important role of cli ... Show More
Oct 2015
Maladies and mice. Pre-clinical vaccine development
Approaches used to target particularly tricky diseases to treat, such as malaria, HIV, Flu and TB. Whilst many of the world’s major diseases can be targeted by vaccines there is a drastic need for new or improved vaccines against a number of the most deadly including HIV, malaria ... Show More
12m 34s
Aug 2020
Vaccine Trials and Tribulations
The first U.S. vaccine trial is underway, and it’s missing something important - Black and Latino volunteers. Dr. Elmer Huerta, the host of CNN’s Spanish-language podcast Coronavirus: Realidad vs. Ficción, signed up for the Moderna trial and talks about why the success of a Covid ... Show More
12m 14s
Nov 2020
Dispatch 13: Challenge Trials
<p>What if someone asked you to get infected with the COVID-19 virus, deliberately, in order to speed up the development of a vaccine? Would you do it? Would you risk your life to save others?</p>
<p>For months, dozens of companies have been racing to create coronavirus vaccines. ... Show More
26m 36s