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Podcast: Emergex CEO Questions mRNA Vaccines Against ‘Wuhan Virus’, Works On Universal Vaccines

Seeks More Partners For New Delivery Modes

 
• By Vibha Ravi

Emergex CEO and ex-research director at the University of Oxford, Thomas Rademacher, spoke with Scrip about the myth of the “Wuhan virus” and why synthetic T-cell adaptive vaccines are expected to be superior to RNA/mRNA ones. More partners are being sought for additional delivery mechanisms, the founder of the UK-based, clinical-stage biotech says in this podcast interview.

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Podcast Interview With Emergex Vaccines CEO, Thomas Rademacher

The pandemic renewed interest in vaccines, and with Pfizer Inc. and Moderna, Inc. making mRNA vaccines a reality, and a hugely commercially successful one at that, more vaccine companies are in the limelight.

Dr Thomas Rademacher, founder CEO of UK-based, clinical stage biotech, Emergex Vaccines Holding Ltd., has been working on universal...

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