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Here's a relevant (free) webinar:

https://pharm.ucsf.edu/acdrs/webinar

The Challenges of Vaccine Development (Without and With a Pandemic)
 
Speaker: Emilio A. Emini, PhD, FCCP, FAAM, Director, TB and HIV Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation   
 
The development of novel vaccines designed to prevent disease caused by infectious agents is a highly complex process. It is characterized by a large set of parallel development risks ranging from uncertainty over the nature of the desired immune response to uncertainty over the ability to fully control at-scale manufacturing. In “normal” times, the investment risks (financial and opportunity) are mitigated by addressing the challenges in a roughly linear fashion to de-risk the uncertainties and increase the relative probability of success over time. As such, it is not unusual for a novel vaccine development program to take up to ten years and occasionally more. The development process requires a high level of control, continuous quantitative characterization, and rigorous regulatory supervision. The presentation will discuss the “nature” of prophylactic vaccines and how this nature underlies specific development challenges and uncertainties. The presentation will also discuss the unique circumstances surrounding the development of COVID vaccines, and specifically the extraordinary challenges associated with the goal of developing and scaling-up an effective vaccine in less than one year(!). The discussion will conclude with lessons learned that will (hopefully) help in the vaccine response to the next pandemic.
 
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October 26, 2020
noon - 1:00 pm eastern / 9:00 - 10:00 am pacific
__________________________________________________________
 
There is no registration fee, but advanced registration is required for planning purposes.
 
Registration: https://ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QECz4iWcRg6jrxxljDRFUA  
 
Please pass along this announcement to any of your colleagues who may be interested in attending.
 
Further information on the ACDRS Webinar Series can be found at https://pharm.ucsf.edu/acdrs/webinar .

 



BC

[BostonCard]

Here's a relevant (free) webinar:

https://pharm.ucsf.edu/acdrs/webinar

The Challenges of Vaccine Development (Without and With a Pandemic)
 
Speaker: Emilio A. Emini, PhD, FCCP, FAAM, Director, TB and HIV Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation   
 
The development of novel vaccines designed to prevent disease caused by infectious agents is a highly complex process. It is characterized by a large set of parallel development risks ranging from uncertainty over the nature of the desired immune response to uncertainty over the ability to fully control at-scale manufacturing. In “normal” times, the investment risks (financial and opportunity) are mitigated by addressing the challenges in a roughly linear fashion to de-risk the uncertainties and increase the relative probability of success over time. As such, it is not unusual for a novel vaccine development program to take up to ten years and occasionally more. The development process requires a high level of control, continuous quantitative characterization, and rigorous regulatory supervision. The presentation will discuss the “nature” of prophylactic vaccines and how this nature underlies specific development challenges and uncertainties. The presentation will also discuss the unique circumstances surrounding the development of COVID vaccines, and specifically the extraordinary challenges associated with the goal of developing and scaling-up an effective vaccine in less than one year(!). The discussion will conclude with lessons learned that will (hopefully) help in the vaccine response to the next pandemic.
 
__________________________________________________________
October 26, 2020
noon - 1:00 pm eastern / 9:00 - 10:00 am pacific
__________________________________________________________
 
There is no registration fee, but advanced registration is required for planning purposes.
 
Registration: https://ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QECz4iWcRg6jrxxljDRFUA  
 
Please pass along this announcement to any of your colleagues who may be interested in attending.
 
Further information on the ACDRS Webinar Series can be found at https://pharm.ucsf.edu/acdrs/webinar .

 



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