The coronavirus crisis has resulted in an unprecedented acceleration of efforts to develop vaccines. This webinar will cover some of the basic concepts underlying nucleic acid vaccines, and how new materials and formulations might change the way in which vaccines are made and distributed.
Key questions to be addressed include:
-Why does it take so long to make a new vaccine?
-How might DNA and RNA vaccines disrupt the current process?
-In what ways could the SME sector contribute when vaccines have traditionally been dominated by Big Pharma?
-What are the risks on the way?
The webinar will also include the opportunity to pose your questions to our presenter from the University of Nottingham.
DURATION: 1 hour
PRICING: Free of charge
This free to attend webinar will be held as part of the INSTILS programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Click here to be redirected to further information about the project. This event is classed as State Aid to participating businesses, the value of which is £127, but is delivered completely free of charge to participants.
Speaker Profile:
Professor Cameron Alexander, Professor of Polmer Therapeutics/Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Fellow, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham.
Cameron a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and received the UK Macro Group Medal in 2014 for contributions to polymer science. Research interests cover the use of polymers as carriers for drug, gene and cell delivery, with applications ranging from antimicrobial materials to cancer therapies and vaccines.
