Fighting Covid-19 at Imperial
I visited the Section of Immunology of Infection where Professor Robin Shattock’s team are developing a vaccine for the Coronavirus.
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Professor Robin Shattock blocks the path of your pandemic with his vaccine team.
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Robin with research technician Leon Mcfarlane.
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Senior Research Fellow Dr Paul McKay was instrumental in the development of the Vaccine, working here in the lab space created exclusively to do battle with Coronavirus
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Paul at the fume hood.
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A plate culture Paul used to develop the vaccine.
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Senior Research Fellow Dr Paul McKay.
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The vaccine ‘broth’
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The contents of these very cold boxes could potentially be very useful.
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The Coronavirus vaccine, human trials are expected to begin in April.
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Karnyart Samnuan is a PhD Student also working in the lab. “My research focuses on the optimization of the production and function of self-amplifying RNA vaccines in order to improve immunogenicity and cost-effectiveness. The main goals are to enable local production of RNA vaccines across the world as well as to develop a platform that can be used to rapidly respond to outbreaks.”
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