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ISBN: PB: 9780226792514

University of Chicago Press

March 2021

160 pp.

22.8x15.2 cm

1 table

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£12,00
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How to Make a Vaccine

An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond

As the COVID-19 pandemic has affected every corner of the world, changing our relationship to our communities, to our jobs, and to each other, the most pressing question has been – when will it end? Researchers around the globe are urgently trying to answer this question by racing to develop a vaccine that could end the greatest public health threat of our time. In How to Make a Vaccine, an expert who has firsthand experience developing vaccines, tells an optimistic story of how three hundred years of vaccine discovery and a century and a half of immunology research have come together at this powerful moment – and will lead to multiple COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. John Rhodes draws on his experience as an immunologist, including working alongside a young Anthony Fauci, to unravel the mystery of how vaccines are designed, tested, and produced at scale for global deployment. Concise and accessible, this book describes in everyday language how the immune system evolved to combat infection, how viruses responded by evolving ways to evade it, and how vaccines do their work. That history, and the pace of current research developments, make Rhodes hopeful that multiple vaccines are near. Today the complex workings of the immune system are well understood. The tools needed by biomedical scientists stand ready to be used, and more than 160 vaccine candidates have already been produced. But defeating COVID-19 won't be the end of the story: Rhodes describes how discoveries today are also empowering scientists to combat future threats to global health, including a recent breakthrough in the development of genetic vaccines, which have never before been used in humans. As all eyes are fixed on the news for positive word of a vaccine that can end the pandemic, Rhodes offers a current and informative look at the science and strategies that will deliver a solution to the crisis.  

About the Author

John Rhodes is a UK-based international expert in immunology and vaccine discovery. He has held research fellowships at the US National Institutes of Health and the University of Cambridge¸ and from 2001 to 2007 he was director of strategy in immunology at GlaxoSmithKline. He is the author of "The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease".