Vaccines - From Concept to Clinic with Oxford Sparks
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Vaccines - From Concept to Clinic with Oxford Sparks
In this four-part podcast series Dr Sean Elias and colleagues introduce and explore the work of the University of Oxford Jenner Institute in the development of new, innovative vaccines.
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Medical science needs you! Human clinical trials
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...
How clean is a clean room? Human vaccine manufacture
The stringent processes that ensure new vaccines are clinic-ready Vaccines like any medicinal product need to be manufactured at the highest standard...
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 ta...
Why vaccinate? The history and science of vaccination
Vaccine origins, science behind how vaccines work and how outbreaks of diseases can occur if vaccination levels drop too low. Vaccines are arguably th...