Why are malaria vaccines so hard to make?

Lawrence Wang is an MD-DPhil candidate in vaccine research at Oxford, a medical school student at UC San Diego, and a NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholar at National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the Intramural Research Program (IRP). In this 1hr+ session, Lawrence and I discuss everything from malaria vaccines to cytokine storms to benefits of doing an MD-PhD. He has written many articles on med school insider, has a public health paper out on the private sector drug shops and anti-malarials in Uganda, and fences foil on the Oxford blues fencing team. Tune in for an exciting session!

2:20 Malaria Vaccine and DPhil work

4:16 Monoclonal antibodies

8:53 How do you isolate antibodies?

13:02 £30,000 experiment - Berkeley Lights machine

23:23 Cytokine Storm!

35:53 Malaria vs  ...