Professor Margaret Liu, founder of DNA vaccines, gave a lecture “Vaccine development and implementation: from idea to product” at the Congress Center of Sechenov University.

The main topics of the lecture were the following:

-description of the vaccine development process from concept to licensing.
-the main difficulties of development: analysis of those vaccine types, which use in clinical practice led to the development of side effects; 
-optimal design of clinical trials describing the clinical efficiency of a vaccine instead of the characteristics of the candidate formulations;
-features of vaccine development against new diseases and a range of diseases making a comeback;
-vaccine development in accordance with the Animal rule, USFDA
-the most prospective approaches to HIV vaccine development;
-access to vaccines in the countries with low level of health care;
-new trends in anti-tumor vaccines;
 -methods of integration of locally developed vaccines in the international markets.

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Professor Margaret Liu is founder of DNA Vaccines, Adjunct Professor at University of California (San Francisco, USA), Foreign Adjunct Professor at Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden)