Hilda Bastian 8 months ago

Lots of next generation Covid vaccine news this month: - Some good news at last about US Project NextGen trial funding for mucosal vax - Preclinical studies for several intranasal vaxes showing prevention of transmission - First preclinical results for a key French intranasal vax - More data on the safety of self-amplifying mRNA vax Plus more now @PLOS :verified:

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More Progress in Vaccines to Reduce Covid Transmission (NextGen Vax Update 28) - Absolutely Maybe

This month, there’s good news about an intranasal vaccine in France that has a chance of making it over the line in…

#Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

Hilda Bastian 9 months ago

"With sadness and resolve: Why I resigned as Chief Medical Officer of an NIH Institute and what comes next" by Josh Fessel. Such a powerful document: 1) "We must limit the damage..." 2) "we must tell the stories of science and scientists, of public health and the professionals that work to keep us all healthy." 3) "we must protect the next generation of leaders in the biomedical sciences and public health like your life and theirs depend on it, because they do." https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1513/AnnalsATS.202503-366IP

Hilda Bastian 9 months ago

This is Sechi Katō (1893-1989) in 1918. It's her graduation photo from a women's college in Tokyo. Eventually she would become the first woman principal investigator at RIKEN, Japan's national chemistry & physics institute. She faced incredibly daunting hurdles before then... 1/7 #WomenInSTEM

Hilda Bastian 9 months ago

In my recent post about PubMed, a concern I raised was what might happen with the committee that has the power to decide what journals are PubMed-indexed. They could open the anti-science/pseudoscience floodgates. This is the message you get now for that committee - gulp:

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Hate that it has come to this, but it's time to consider PubMed vulnerable to enshittification. My latest post @PLOS@mstdn.science discusses the li...

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Hilda Bastian 9 months ago

Major funding cuts to the vaccine pipeline announced in the US, but important advances for mucosal Covid vaccines globally: - 10th mucosal vax reaches phase 2 (in Canada) - Another human challenge trial as prep for mucosal trials started in Singapore - Trial results, including one for intranasal vax in kids in China And lots more in my latest next generation Covid vaccine update now online @PLOS :verified:

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Mucosal Covid Vaccine Trials Progress; US R&D Funding Cuts (NextGen Update 27) - Absolutely Maybe

This month, there are results from 3 clinical trials of next generation vaccines, including an early safety study of an intranasal vaccine…

#Vaccines #Covid #Covid19

Hilda Bastian 9 months ago

This is amazing! Lie Detectors combat media misinformation & polarization on democracy. Based in Brussels. They run classroom sessions in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland & Switzerland - run by journalists, giving young people the experience of getting to know journalists. They do teacher training, too - & they will do international training remotely!

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Hilda Bastian 10 months ago

A big news month for next generation Covid vaccines! Exciting news from Europe - - and roadblocks in the US. - Kostaive self-amplifying mRNA authorized in Europe & a burning question answered! It generates more mRNA from a lower dose, but it is transient, too. - France taking the lead for intranasal Covid vaccine? - With all the roadblocks now in the US, what do prospects for nextgen vax look like there? All this & more in my new @PLOS :verified: post:

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Exciting News from Europe, and Roadblocks in the US (NextGen Covid Vax Update 26) - Absolutely Maybe

There are 2 pieces of exciting news from Europe this month. As anticipated, the European Commission has authorized Kostaive, the self-amplifying mR...

#Vaccines #Covid #Covid19

Hilda Bastian 10 months ago

Paris Adkins-Jackson is an epidemiologist who uses mixed methods to study structural racism – including with NIH funding. Originally from South Central LA, she's now at Columbia Uni. I've created a Wikipedia page for her:

Paris Adkins-Jackson - Wikipedia