Christian Brander, Ph.D., is a leading expert on T cell responses to viral infections and brings an important blend of academic and biotech experience.Mala Maini, MD, Ph.D., is a professor of viral immunology at University College London with key expertise in adaptive immunity to hepatitis B, liver cancer, and SARS-CoV-2. Together with the other distinguished vaccine development experts on the company’s scientific advisory board, they will support AstriVax in advancing its innovative plug-and-pl
Emmanuel Hanon, PhD, will chair the company's scientific advisory board. Professor Peter Piot (MD, PhD) and Professor Patrick Soentjens (MD, PhD) have been appointed as advisors. Together, they bring complementary
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This documentary looks at approaches to fighting multiresistant strains of bacteria. Each year 33,000 people in Europe die after becoming infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. Hygiene specialist Dr. Ron Hendrix has been working for years to prevent outbreaks of infectious disease in hospitals. Dr. Hendrix says that he and other experts in the Netherlands recognized early on that they d have to fight the spread of bacteria just as actively as they would the actual infection. Hendrix has convinced a number of German hospitals to re-open their diagnostic laboratories, as well. In the early 2000s, many of these labs had been shut down as a cost-cutting measure. And farmers in Denmark voluntarily chose to sharply reduce their use of antibiotics, after evidence showed that intensive livestock farming caused multiresistant bacteria to multiply. Infectious disease specialist Dr. Patrick Soentjens was able to convince Belgium s health mi