Professor Gordon Dougan FRS The United Kingdom lost most of its vaccine manufacturing capacity in the 1980s. I was there and saw it happen. COVID-19 has shown how vital vaccine knowhow and production capacity is for any country and region. Here is my personal perspective on what is needed to build towards a more equitable … Continue reading How we lost our vaccine manufacturing industry and why we should get it back; a personal perspective

Gordon Dougan, Josefina Campos, Mariano Said, Silvia Pinero, Silvia Argimón y Kat Holt Desarrollar una vacuna contra el COVID-19 va a ser una tarea inmensa. Hemos esbozado aquí, con cierto detalle, los pasos que normalmente se requieren para crear una vacuna, y los comparamos con lo que puede suceder en el caso del COVID-19. Será … Continue reading Cómo crear una vacuna contra el COVID-19 desde cero

Gordon Dougan & Kat Holt Making a COVID-19 vaccine will be a huge undertaking. We have outlined here, in some detail, the steps normally taken to make a vaccine and compare this to what may happen for COVID-19. It will be a race full of challenges and surprises so hold your breath. (Spanish translation available … Continue reading How to make a new COVID-19 vaccine starting from scratch

Over the past 70 years we, living in the richer nations, have gradually lost our sense of danger concerning epidemics and serious infections. This is a consequence of better vaccines, improved health infrastructure and other medicines such as antibiotics that essentially drove serious community infections out of vision. This was not true everywhere in the … Continue reading How we lost our collective memory of epidemics