Talking Pandemic

Talking Pandemic

By Akshayata NaiduScienceLife Sciences
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Talking Pandemic episodes

  • Anti-Viral Drugs
    What are antiviral drugs? How do they function and Why is it to difficult to make them? Join me and my guest to know all this and much more.  Email address: [email protected]
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    20 min
  • RNA Vaccines

    What are RNA vaccines? Let's us find out about them, their relevance and  their future with our guest. 

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    45 min
  • The Virus
    What are viruses anyway? How do they multiply and which vaccines are best suited for these viral vectors. Join us as me and my friend Lobna Medfai, PhD candidate dive into the fascinating world of these little beings.  
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    26 min
  • The Viral Vectors and the Future of Vaccine Development - Phase II

    Description: Let’s talk about viral vector vaccines and the future of vaccine development from a young researcher who contributed in the development of the ChAdOx vector.

    Interesting papers:

    The Hajj Project- https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/10/16-1642_article

    ChAdOx as vaccine candidate - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X17306564?via%3Dihub

    Vaccine Development - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7177048/

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    26 min
  • The Viral Vectors and The Future of Vaccine Development - Phase I
    Let’s talk about viral vector vaccines and the future of vaccine development from a young researcher - Dr. Eriko Padron Regalado - who contributed in the development of the ChAdOx vector during his PhD thesis.
    Interesting papers by the guest:
    The Hajj Project- https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/10/16-1642_article
    ChAdOx as vaccine candidate - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X17306564?via%3Dihub
    Vaccine Development - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7177048/
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    34 min
  • East Africa
    Join us as we discuss about how some of the countries in East Africa are dealing with the pandemic.
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    28 min
  • The Unpreparedness

    Join us as we discuss about why we were not as prepared to deal with the pandemic as much as we should have. We also discuss on how different countries dealt with the outbreak and the policies they undertook when the virus entered their territory.

    Send your Anti-Pandemic "What if" to: [email protected] 

    (I am aware of the misspell in the email address, but it is the correct email address and quite functional :)). 

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    25 min
  • The Immune System

    In this episode we discuss about immunity and the immune system. We touch upon the subject of how and why the immune system behave differently in different individuals. And some new and wonderful things that are current focus of research related to the immune system.

    Two paper on trained immunity:

    https://www.cell.com/trends/immunology/fulltext/S1471-4906(20)30066-1

    https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)30507-9.pdf

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    29 min
  • Season 2: "The Great Neglect"

    Hello there! Welcome to the second season where we discuss about the immune system and past epidemics preparedness across the globe. This episode revolves around the importance of the subject of epidemiology and how it has been neglected in many developing countries.

    Links to social media handles are as follows:

    Instagram handle: talking_pandemic

    Email address: [email protected]

    Youtube URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqDaD9xNPgdQElTwrfhNzmg/

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    13 min
  • The Great Neglect

    Hello there! Welcome to the second season where we discuss about the immune system and past epidemics preparedness across the globe. This episode revolves around the importance of the subject of epidemiology and how it has been neglected in many developing countries. 

    Links to social media handles are as follows:

    Instagram handle: talking_pandemic

    Email address: [email protected]

    Youtube URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqDaD9xNPgdQElTwrfhNzmg/

    12 min

About Talking Pandemic

From the publisher's feed

An initiative to give a voice to young professionals and researchers to talk on how they see the current pandemic and what lessons have they derived from it for the future. The broad purpose of the podcast is to uplift scientific communication to influence a global audience to think about the pandemic more logically and analytically.