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MassCPR Public Briefing

Date: 

Tuesday, July 28, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Zoom Webinar

MassCPR Public Briefings

Title VACCINES: The Ultimate Quest in COVID-19

Description                                                     

Researchers and physician-scientists from the Harvard Medical School-led Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) and thought leaders will discuss the state of COVID-19 vaccine development, latest efforts, clinical trials underway, and others expected to launch soon.

 

Topics include:
  • Vaccines and immunity; how vaccines trigger immune protection
  • Vaccine platforms in development, research findings to date, strategies for vaccine acceleration, and vaccine scalability and distribution
  • Equity and disparities in vaccine research
  • Lessons learned from past vaccine successes and failures
Audience Scientifically curious lay public; journalists
Format 60-minute program, followed by 30-minute audience Q&A
Presenters                        
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
George Q. Daley
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University
 
Lindsey Baden
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director of Clinical Research, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
 
Dan Barouch
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
Nicole Frahm
Exploratory Biomarker Leader, Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute
Affiliate Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
 
Bisola Ojikutu
Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Infectious Disease Specialist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital
 
Arlene Sharpe
Chair, Department of Immunology, Harvard Medical School
Co-director, Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
 
Bruce Walker
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Director, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
Director, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research

About MassCPR

 

 

 

 

                                                

 

 

                                               

MassCPR is a multi-institutional effort formed in early March to address both the immediate implications of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the long-term need for enhanced preparedness for emerging pathogens. This effort involves scientists across 15 Boston-area universities, medical schools, research institutes and teaching hospitals from a variety of disciplines, including virology, immunology, microbiology, epidemiology, pathology, diagnostics and therapeutics development, computational biology, and clinical medicine.

The formation of MassCPR was enabled by a research agreement between Harvard University and the China Evergrande Group, with support being shared equally between Massachusetts-based researchers and colleagues at the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health in China.

 

This event is made possible by the Maxwell Finland Lectureship Fund

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Click here to watch the live stream on Youtube

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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