BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Sarah Gilbert on developing a vaccine for Covid-19

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Sarah Gilbert on developing a vaccine for Covid-19

‘It’s not going to be like it is in the movies’

Vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert is leading the development of one of the front-running vaccine candidates for COVID-19, from the University of Oxford and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. She tells the BBC’s The Life Scientific podcast about the breakneck speed of the process, how her team’s vaccine works and her hopes for the end game of the pandemic. “Safety is always paramount,” says Gilbert. “I know people are impatient to know the results, but we can’t get the result without doing these very careful clinical studies.”

The Life Scientific podcast | 29 min listen