#3-20 - What are Carbohydrate-Based Vaccines? - ft. Prof. Dr. Peter Seeberger

In this episode, Bea talks to Prof. Dr. Peter Seeberger, a managing director at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, about carbohydrate-based vaccines. 

Peter talks about how the research he has done for the past 27 years led to the development of a tool for the automated synthesis of carbohydrates. He talks about creating the synthesizer even when people did not believe that it could be possible, and explains how the synthesizer can be used in a variety of chemical fields, for example, in creating synthetic carbohydrate-based vaccines. 

Peter explains the history of vaccines, talks about their development and how it has changed through the years, and also discusses the future of the field of vaccines, both with regard to the design of synthetic vaccines and the growing vaccine market for animals. 

Peter also talks about the spin-off companies and currently used vaccines that the research in his laboratory has resulted in.

Learn more about Prof. Dr. Seeberger's lab and research here: https://www.mpikg.mpg.de/en/bs and https://www.peter-seeberger.de

Cover Photo: © Sebastian Rost / Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung

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