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Making the next global vaccine
In this episode, we discuss UCL's VaxHub, a collaboration between UCL and Oxford, focused on vaccine development and manufacturing. VaxHub, active since 2018, aims to create sustainable and accessible vaccine platforms for low and middle-income countries. They work on various vaccine types, including RNA, glyco conjugate, and adenovirus-based vaccines. The hub emphasizes faster, cost-effective methods and localized manufacturing to improve global vaccine access. Notable projects include the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and glyco conjugate vaccines. The conversation also highlighted the challenges of antimicrobial resistance and the importance of global health initiatives to prevent pandemics.
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2/17/2025
Bioengineering of Vaccines | Spring into STEM
Dr Steffi Frank works on the design and industrial application of enzyme localisation technologies with the aim to synthesise bio-therapeutic proteins and small molecule drugs. Her teaching is in the areas of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology.
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8/5/2022
Vaccine Manufacture | Spring Into STEM
Dr Jasmine Samaras and Professor Martina Micheletti discuss the challenges involved in making a vaccine safely, cheaply and sustainably and, how technologies could revolutionise the industry.
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5/27/2021
FLOPCAST Ep 13 Thomas Kador
This is the 13th episode of a podcast mini-series to accompany FLOP 13 Stories of Failure, a free exhibition at the UCL Octagon Gallery open from 21 October 2019 to 10 April 2020. The exhibition has been commissioned by UCL Culture and curated by Thomas Kador (UCL Arts & Sciences). It shines a spotlight on a topic that most of us rather avoid and not talk about and investigates (through 13 stories) what happens when things go wrong. The FLOPCAST series comprises 15 different voices, all experts in their fields, discussing some of the objects on display at the exhibition to tell these stories of failure. The intention is that the podcasts can be accessed both while people are looking at the exhibits and independently without having visited the exhibition. In this 13th episode FLOP Exhibition Curator Dr Thomas Kador tells the story that medical wax models can reveal about our failure to eradicate infectious diseases.
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10/19/2019