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COVID-19 mutations: what might they mean for vaccination strategies?

19 April 2021 19.30
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Some mutations in the COVID-19 virus affect its antigenic phenotype - its potential escape from immunity raised by prior infection or vaccination. 

On Monday 19 April Derek Smith, Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics at Cambridge University, will talk about the science of figuring this out, what is known so far, and what effect it might have on vaccination strategies. He will compare and contrast this evolutionary process to that of other pathogens such as influenza viruses.

More about the speaker:

Derek Smith is Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics in the Zoology Department at Cambridge University. He is also a member of the Department of Virology at Erasmus Medical Center in The Netherlands. 

He is an advisor to the World Health Organization, is a member of its influenza vaccine strain selection committee, and is also involved in vaccine strain selection for other human and non-human pathogens. 

His research is focused on how pathogens evolve, to what extent this evolution is predictable, and determining public and animal health measures against such ever-changing pathogens.

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