The stringent processes that ensure new vaccines are clinic-ready Vaccines like any medicinal product need to be manufactured at the highest standard before they are allowed to be tested in humans. Achieving such standards take time, money and careful planning. In this episode we discuss the stringent processes that take a vaccine from a preclinical stage to ... 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
Jul 2020
Why a Vaccine Won't Create Instant Immunity
An effective vaccine is seen as the world’s greatest hope for achieving some kind of return to normal, and the timeline for developing one has been sped up dramatically. But as hard as it’s going to be to make a vaccine quickly, once we do, we’ll have a new problem: Getting it to ... Show More
12m 36s
Jan 2021
What's with the hold-up with the Pfizer vaccine?
The vaccine hopes of millions of people worldwide are hanging on the Pfizer vaccine, but the supply of the shot is facing delays.
Why? Well, it relies on a whole lot of things that have never happened before all happening at once, in perfect sequence.
It's the first approved mRNA ... Show More
10m 52s
Mar 2021
Episode 22: Simplifying the COVID-19 Vaccines With Priya Sampathkumar
Chadi is joined by Priya Sampathkumar (@PSampathkumarMD), MD, infectious disease specialist and hospital epidemiologist, Mayo Clinic, to detail the COVID vaccine effort over the past 12 months and how the currently approved ones came to be safe and effective in such a short perio ... Show More
51m 35s