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SUMMARY:Advances in Biosciences Seminar Series - Professor Jeffrey Almond
 \, Former Head of vaccine Research at Sanofi
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DESCRIPTION:Join the Division of Molecular and Cellular Function (MCF) fo
 r the Advances in Biosciences Seminar Series\, the speaker is Professor 
 Jeffrey Almond\, Former Head of vaccine Research at Sanofi.\n\nHosted by
  Dr Ximena Soto.\n\nTitle: “Infectious Diseases: Are we in control?”\n\n
 Abstract: Plagues and pandemics of the past\, present and future. This p
 resentation will review human vaccines and their development\, consider 
 current challenges and future threats\, including pandemic preparedness.
   What new technologies can be harnessed to provide rapid response and s
 calability\, and perhaps offer new insights into how to develop vaccines
  against the difficult pathogens for which we do not have licenced vacci
 nes today? Examples of challenges will also include polio eradication an
 d how to maintain a polio-free world\; the influenza threat\, and select
 ed rare diseases with outbreak potential. \n\nBio: Jeffrey Almond is a V
 isiting Professor at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology\, Universi
 ty of Oxford and at the Department of Microbiology\, University of Readi
 ng.  He is also an Oxford Martin Fellow with the Oxford Martin Programme
  on Vaccines.  Previously (1999-2014) he was Vice President and Global H
 ead of Research and External R&D at Sanofi Pasteur\, the vaccine divisio
 n of the Sanofi group. There he was responsible for a portfolio of vacci
 ne projects across infectious diseases and cancer\, and for establishing
  and managing R&D partnerships with Academia and Biotech companies relev
 ant to the commercial interests of Sanofi Pasteur.  Prior to joining San
 ofi\, Jeffrey Almond spent most of his career in the UK. He was lecturer
  at the University of Leicester from 1979-85 and Professor of Microbiolo
 gy and Head of the School of Animal and Microbial Sciences at the Univer
 sity of Reading 1985-99.  He has served on numerous national and interna
 tional committees including being a member of Council of the MRC\, and a
  member the UK Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee. Previousl
 y he has held senior officer positions in several learned societies incl
 uding the International Union of Microbiological Societies and the Acade
 my of Medical Sciences. Professor Almond is currently a member of severa
 l boards and scientific advisory boards\, mainly concerning infectious d
 isease control\, both in the public and private sectors in Europe\, the 
 UK\, India and the USA. \n\n\n\n
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LOCATION:Michael Smith Lecture Theatre\, Michael Smith Building\, Manches
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