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Race against time [UTokyo-IIS Bulletin Vol.7]
Since the global outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, hundreds of drug makers have been racing against time to make safe, effective vaccines available to stop the pandemic, which has claimed over 2 million lives. While most of the vaccines being administered or tested are inactivated, Project Professor Misako Yoneda, an applied veterinary science specialist at UTokyo-IIS, is taking a unique approach: developing a live, recombinant vaccine by using the measles virus as a vector.