COVID-19 news

These articles cover what IVVN members are doing to help address the COVID-19 pandemic. If you are involved in a project related to COVID-19 and would like to see your work featured here, please ivvn [at] roslin [dot] ed [dot] ac [dot] uk (subject: COVID-19%20research%20for%20IVVN%20website) (let us know).

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COVID-19 vaccine: the eight technologies being tested

A vaccine is the most effective and safest way of ending the COVID-19 pandemic. But which vaccine types are being tested and how far have the projects progressed?

21 May 2020

Interview with Dr Volker Gerdts, Director and CEO of VIDO-InterVac

We spoke with Dr Volker Gerdts, Director and CEO of VIDO-InterVac, about his organisation’s work on developing and testing a subunit vaccine against SARS-CoV-2.

11 May 2020

COVID-19 vaccination: lessons to be learned from veterinary coronavirus vaccines

Dr Michael James Francis, IVVN board member and Managing Director of BioVacc Consulting Ltd, discusses vaccines against veterinary coronaviruses and how these could relate to the COVID-19 pandemic.

05 May 2020

Oxford scientists to begin COVID-19 vaccine clinical testing

A team of scientists from the Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group are to begin clinical testing of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

20 Apr 2020

Interview with Bent Frandsen, CEO of ExpreS²ion Biotechnologies

We spoke with IVVN member Bent Frandsen, CEO of ExpreS²ion Biotechnologies, about his organisation’s involvement in an EU consortium to rapidly develop a COVID-19 vaccine.

17 Apr 2020