Innovation Overground: Vaccines at warp speed (249)

29/06/2020 19 min
Innovation Overground: Vaccines at warp speed (249)

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What if the lasting legacy of COVID-19 is...not all bad? Leavening the horror of pandemic disease is the shockingly fast development of a vaccine. Right now, two COVID-19 vaccine candidates are roaring into full-on human testing, and may be ready to inoculate the world by 2021.  Featured Technologies: https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/comment/operation-warp-speed-finalists-funding-initiative/;  https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243; https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/Adenoviral-vectors-new-COVID-19/98/i19 Hosts: Charlie Litton (@charlielitton); Tyler Scherr (@dare2scherr); Joe Runge (@EntreprenurialW)  Sponsor:  UNeMed (https://www.unemed.com); @UNeMed Music: Countdown to Myocardial Infarction, by Peter Gresser. Used with permission. http://sonofactori.com/