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Catherine Green is an associate professor at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, and head of the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility.
Known for: Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus
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Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus
Vaxxers is a firsthand account by Professor Sarah Gilbert and Dr. Catherine Green, the scientists behind the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The book recounts the urgent scientific, logistical, and emotional challenges of developing a vaccine during the global pandemic, offering insight into the teamwork, innovation, and determination that made it possible.
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Early Warning
I remember the quiet of January 2020. The news of a mysterious pneumonia spread cautiously through scientific channels. At first, we thought it might pass — perhaps another localized outbreak. But the reports multiplied, and the genomic sequences soon arrived. I spent that night looking at data on m...
From Vaxxers: The Inside Story of the Oxford AstraZeneca Vaccine and the Race Against the Virus
Vaccine Platform
Our strength lay in having technology ready before the storm hit. The ChAdOx1 platform — a harmless chimpanzee adenovirus modified to carry genetic instructions for the coronavirus spike protein — was not new to us. For years it had been the foundation of experimental vaccines for influenza, MERS, a...
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Catherine Green is an associate professor at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, and head of the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility.
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