At NFID’s 16th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research this week in Baltimore, MD, Dr. Richard Malley presented the Robert Austrian Memorial Lecture on “Predicting the Future to Explain the Past: Development of a Universal Pneumococcal Vaccine.” We had a chance to speak with him afterwards to talk about his experiences with Dr. Austrian as well as his current work on developing a new pneumococcal vaccine and advice for the future generation of vaccine researchers. Watch the video to learn more.
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