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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.

Scrip Podcast Special
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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