Vaccine - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

caregiving, and the hearts of caregivers. The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain By Kate E. Bingham (MBA 1991) and Tim Hames Oneworld Publications As chair of the UK’s task force charged with developing an... View Details

02 Dec 2019
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Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna

when she was confined to a wheelchair for long periods—first as a little girl, then as a teen—due to hip problems brought on by a contaminated vaccine she received. “I especially loved watching behind-the-scenes shows about how a director... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

What prevented the crisis that the data in the spring and summer of 2020 predicted? There are three possible explanations. First, the crisis was much shorter and milder than we originally anticipated because the vaccines came out. Second,... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

looks at how the company built a digital organization that leverages AI and other technologies to speed its operations, manage its processes, and ensure quality across research, testing, and manufacturing in its race to develop a vaccine... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

allowing users to retain relative anonymity. Back to top Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) As the months of the pandemic ticked by, many of us were transfixed by progress updates on vaccine development. Moderna’s mRNA technology, we learned,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

fact that we knew the genetic sequence of it within a few weeks, the fact that there are vaccine candidates being tried in humans, that perhaps we’ll see a drug that is effective against it—the power of biomedical research in the year... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

20 Apr 2020
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To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual

may not guarantee long-lasting immunity. This is of major importance for vaccine development, because a person must produce a sufficient amount of neutralizing antibodies to be protected.” Seftel has used the weekly updates to give a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2023
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Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

height of the COVID-19 pandemic, he and some of his fellow medical students and doctors founded GOTVax, a mobile clinic that vaccinated about 8,000 people in Black and brown communities in the greater Boston area. “What I hope to do is to... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

people provided important lessons for the battle against HIV/AIDS, says Gilmartin. Not only is Merck pursuing a safe and effective vaccine to prevent and treat HIV infection, he points out, but the company also announced last year that it... View Details

02 Sep 2021
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Back to School

the person who ran our COVID-19 operations, Josh Geballe, had previously been an 11-year executive at IBM who also started a successful tech company. He really drove the entire vaccine response, and it was that MBA mindset that enabled... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

could replace the painful prick of a vaccination needle. And as "delivery vehicles" for medicines proliferate, new distribution channels, such as supermarkets and health clubs, could offer products alongside the more established sources... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

06 Jan 2021
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

the vaccines coming up now and as more of the production happens, we'll slowly start getting back to a post-COVID world. And I don't think that world is going to be the world we saw pre-COVID, just because in a matter of months, we've... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

to your life, this combination becomes highly combustible. So, for instance, we can learn about the spike proteins on viruses, and then we can use that knowledge to create a vaccine to counter these viruses. One, two, bang. That’s how it... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

instant hits. Last summer, Nicotrol became the first of these products to receive over-the-counter approval. De Weese left Cygnus in 1992 to head up M6 Pharmaceuticals, a New Yorkbased vaccine and antibiotics company. In 1995, he launched... View Details

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