Vaccine Facts with BactiVax
To celebrate World Immunization Week 2021 (24 - 30 April), we at BactiVax are launching a podcast series. In the first 5 episodes, we will answer all the questions that you sent to our scientists about vaccines.
Vaccine Facts part 5 - vaccines of the future In the final episode of our World Immunization Week 2021 podcast, we talk about vaccines of the future and answer your questions: - How can we tackle antimicrobial resistant infections and why are vaccines the only viable option? - Will we have vaccines to prevent cancers in the near future (other than the existing HPV and Hepatitis B vaccines)? - What are messenger RNA (or mRNA) vaccines? How do they work? - Will vaccines be administered via the nose, mouth or patch in the future, rather than through injection? Listen to our researchers, Unai Atxabal from CIC bioGUNE (Spain), María García Bengoa from LIONEX (Germany) and Chiara Bellini from Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary).
Vaccine Facts part 4 - vaccine confidence and herd immunity are teamwork Welcome to part 4 of our Wold Immunization Week podcast series. Today we talk about vaccine hesitancy: where it stems from, how is misinformation spread and what we can do to increase vaccine confidence (and why we should do so). We're also explaining the importance of herd immunity through vaccination and why achieving this requires team effort.
Featuring Maite Sainz, researcher at University College Dublin (Ireland), Eliza Kramarska, researcher at the National Research Council of Italy, and Lorenzo Bossi, researcher at ImmunXperts (Belgium).
Vaccine Facts part 3 - vaccine clinical studies explained You asked about clinical trials and we answered. In episode 3 of the podcast, Franziska Pieper (Imperial College London, UK), Océane Sadones (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) and Zsolt Bognár (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) tell you all you wanted to know about vaccine clinical studies, including: - How are safety and efficiency tested before clinical studies? - How is the process authorised and who is responsible for this? - How are people recruited for clinical trials? - Are approved vaccines reviewed periodically, once on the market? - How were COVID-19 vaccines developed so fast? - How long does it take to develop immunity after a vaccine?
Vaccine Facts part 2 - we’ve come a long way (history, types of vaccines and other components) In the second episode of our podcast celebrating World Immunization Week 2021, we'll talk about the beginnings of vaccines and how they changed the world. We'll also tell you about the types of vaccines in use and what other vaccine components, such as adjuvants, are. For example, did you know that some vaccines use whole pathogens (inactivated or attenuated), while others use small pieces of the germ (like the mRNA vaccines now used for COVID-19)? This episode features Paulina Zarodkiewicz (Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland), Emil Vergara (St. George's University of London, UK) and Ana Rita Franco (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy).
Vaccine Facts part 1 - who is WHO and why do we need vaccines? In the first episode, we have Sam Pasco, researcher at CIC bioGUNE (Bilbao, Spain), Enisa Smlatić, researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), and Irene Jurado, researcher at University College Dublin (Ireland), discussing about the work of the World Health Organization in addressing immunization needs globally. Our researchers are also explaining how vaccines work and why do we need them. We hope you enjoy our first episode and stay tuned as we release a new episode every day this week!