• Question: which vaccines have you helped to make?

    Asked by Jammyzx to Carmen on 9 Mar 2015.
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      Carmen Denman answered on 9 Mar 2015:


      Hi Jammyzx,

      I’ve made vaccines that are still only in trials, so nothing you might have had yourself! I should also say, on average it would take over ten years for a vaccine to be designed and tested, before it went near human clinical trials. It takes a lot of money, and a lot of different people to get a vaccine to market. I study and design vaccines against bacteria that are super dangerous, yet we have no vaccines for. These bacteria (google them, they are cool bugs!) are called Francisella tularensis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, and Coxiella burnetii. Say those three times fast! Tongue twister territory.
      Cheers!
      Carmen

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