How Covid vaccines were developed
Aug 18, 2021
John North
How Covid vaccines were developed

John North completed his PhD in Immunology at Cambridge University nearly 50 years ago and had a career developing new medical devices & pharmaceuticals in UK, USA and BC. For 8 yrs he led a UBC spin-off company developing a new type of drug to control infection and inflammation. He retired to Comox 9 years ago and is a member of the Rotary Club of Comox.

John will talk about the science behind the new vaccines against the virus that causes Covid-19. He will explain the technology developed by scientists in Vancouver, that enabled the novel “mRNA” vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech to win the race to become the first Covid-19 vaccine available in most of the world.