Paul Kellam. Credit to: Denitsa Nikolova
Paul Kellam. Credit to: Denitsa Nikolova Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From a talk to discuss pandemic learnings, to a new way to identify the sex of pest species, here is some quick-read news from across Imperial. Pandemic learnings. Professor Paul Kellam , in the Department of Infectious Disease , discussed lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic in preparing for future health crises at the ScienceBusiness conference on health innovation and the future of medicines development in Brussels this week. Professor Kellam outlined that in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, work streams that would usually run in succession, from early research to translation, to clinical trials and then to regulatory approval, instead ran in parallel where possible, which allowed the development of vaccines to be achieved at great speed. He also highlighted the workings of the UK's Vaccine Taskforce, that worked with companies on the development and clinical trials of vaccines, as part of the pathway to independent regulatory review of the final product.
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