COVID-19 Vaccines: Present and Future
The quick development of several COVID-19 vaccines raised questions about their efficacy and safety. To combat some of the hesitancy around COVID-19 vaccination, Gagandeep Kang spoke about the processes behind COVID-19 vaccine development. In doing so, she also answered critical questions on the mechanisms of vaccination as well as its limits—an extremely relevant topic during the global drive for COVID-19 vaccination.
About the Physician-Scientist
Gagandeep Kang is a Professor of Microbiology at Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, and the Division of Gastrointestinal Sciences at the Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore.
She and her team conduct inter-disciplinary research on enteric infections and child health. They work on gut infections in children, nutrition, water and sanitation. Their team does everything from geographic information systems to human immunology. They have evaluated vaccines in pre-clinical and clinical phase 1-3 studies for rotavirus and cholera, and are now working on typhoid and SARS-CoV2.
