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Vaccine manufacture article published in The Conversation

13 May 2020

UCL Biochemical Engineering academics Professor Martina Micheletti and Associate Professor Qasim Rafiq have published "Coronavirus vaccine: how we’re preparing to make enough for the whole world" in The Conversation

Professor Martina Micheletti and Associate Professor Qasim Rafiq

There are 102 candidate vaccines being explored as a means of ending the COVID-19 pandemic, as of April 30. Eight of these have already made it to clinical trials in humans, and another 94 are in the pre-clinical evaluation stage. Martina Micheletti, Professor of Bioprocess Fluid Dynamics and co-Director of the Future Vaccine Manufacturing Hub together with Qasim Rafiq, Associate Professor of Cell and Gene Therapy Bioprocess Engineering, have published "Coronavirus vaccine: how we’re preparing to make enough for the whole world." You can read the full article in The Conversation here

Professor Rafiq is the programme director of a Manufacture and Commercialisation of Stem Cell and Gene Therapies MSc enrolling in September 2020.

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