Complexity in Early Phase Clinical Trials with Dr. Oren Cohen
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Early Phase Clinical Trials
I started as a student actually working on HIV before we knew what it was and then later ended up doing my fellowship at NIAID and in Tony Fauci's lab. And yeah, that was quite an experience and of course, Tony's been in the news a lot during the COVID pandemic. One of the huge problems with RNA vaccines was that they were too immunogenic. The immune system would recognize and destroy what it perceived to be foreign genetic material. It was the chemically modified RNA that was one of the key discoveries that enabled successful RNA vaccines to be made. So, quite amazing. I think probably a, a Nobel Prize winning discovery in, in the making but yeah
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