It’s Worth a Shot with Principal Scientist Dr. Rinke Bos, Ph.D.
The WoMed
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Host D speaks with Dr. Rinke Bos who is a Principal Scientist at Janssen Vaccines & Prevention in Leiden, the Netherlands, currently working on developing a vaccine for COVID-19. Dr. Rinke’s work focuses on research and development of vaccines against viral infectious diseases and she is leading the charge when it comes to finding a vaccine to end the current pandemic. She shares how she became interested and involved in immunology (D’s career in a next life!), advice for those who may be interested in pursuing a similar career path, and the questions that are still left unanswered when it comes to the worldwide pandemic. Dr. Rinke also discusses the current status of a COVID-19 vaccine and why this virus in particular is so difficult to grasp, from those who transmit the virus to how it is spread.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to the Womed. This week Dr Ranka |
| 0:20.4 | Boss joins me from her home in the Netherlands. |
| 0:23.4 | Yeah, the Netherlands. |
| 0:25.8 | Dr. Boss is an immunologist who, as we speak, is creating and human trialing the COVID |
| 0:31.3 | vaccine with Janssen, a pharmaceutical company of Johnson and Johnson. |
| 0:35.2 | Yeah, the woman's first scientist? |
| 0:37.8 | And can we all call her a superhero? |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah, we can. |
| 0:41.0 | We have a candid discussion around what goes into creating and |
| 0:44.2 | trialing a vaccine, how the COVID virus is so difficult, and our background, |
| 0:48.4 | because you know I love the backstory. Get ready for your weekly dose of |
| 0:52.3 | awesome inspiring badass women. |
| 0:55.0 | This week's Nasty Energy moment comes from at Christine E. Baird. |
| 1:00.0 | She wrote in, I just listened to the episode with Nurse Kim and I just wanted to say as a nursing student |
| 1:06.7 | graduating in August, it has given me the push to finish strong when you're feeling the |
| 1:11.1 | senioritis. Thank you for what you do. |
| 1:14.0 | I love the episode with Nurse Kim |
| 1:16.0 | and I'm so glad you loved it too. |
| 1:18.0 | Good luck with the rest of school |
| 1:19.0 | and taking your NCX, Christine. Hi, Dr. Boss, welcome to the Womed. I am so grateful you were able to take the time to speak with |
| 1:34.6 | me I can only imagine how busy your world is right now and I know you're probably |
| 1:39.1 | inundated with interview requests and being pulled in a million directions right now so I |
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