Microbes After Hours: The Never-ending Vaccine Race
from Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:00PM to Thursday, February 23, 2017 7:00PM
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Veteran medical journalist Meredith Wadman will discuss her book The Vaccine Race. It tells the timely, epic, and controversial story of the development of the first widely-used normal human cell line and, through it, important viral vaccines, including the vaccine for rubella (German measles). Far from being an instrument of history, vaccine development in the modern era is targeting new (and reemerging) infectious diseases, including Ebola, Zika, Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). Dr. April Killikelly, a scientist at NIH's Vaccine Research Center, will discuss the latest tools and technologies used to design tomorrow’s vaccines. Following the discussion, Dr. Wadman will be signing copies of The Vaccine Race. We will have copies available for purchase on site via credit/debit card ONLY. Due to limited seating, you must register for a free ticket to attend in person. Note that tickets are expected to sell out fast. The talks will start promptly at 6:00 p.m. ET (please arrive at 5:45 pm). The event will also be livestreamed on ASM's YouTube channel. Register for the livestream to receive reminders with a direct link to the feed (optional). Meredith K. Wadman, B.M., B.Ch., M.Sc. Staff Writer, Science Meredith Wadman is a neuroscience reporter at Science magazine in Washington, D.C. Before joining Science, Wadman was an editorial fellow at New America, a Washington, D.C. think tank. Prior to that, she was a reporter covering the medical research community for Nature for 17 years. She has also written on biotech and on biomedical policy issues for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time and Fortune magazine. Wadman is a graduate of Stanford University and completed medical school at Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She also earned a master's degree at the graduate school of journalism at Columbia University. April Killikelly, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health Dr. Killikelly is a Postdoctoral fellow working on a vaccine for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) with Dr. Barney Graham at the Vaccine Research Center (NIAID/VRC). She is also a special volunteer with the Outreach and Education office of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She is passionate about using outreach and education to place science in the broader context of culture and as drivers for societal change.
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