Titans of Science: Andrew Pollard

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today's Titan is former chair of the UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, and a key figure in the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine which rolled out during the Covid pandemic. Andrew Pollard tells Chris Smith how vaccines work, how public health bodies decide what to protect us against, and how current technology will shape the future of immunisation... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	All engine running.
0:04.6	Absolutely genius.
0:05.4	Welcome.
0:06.3	Welcome.
0:07.2	This is the show where we bring you science.
0:09.0	What that essentially means is discovery is advances.
0:12.1	Research.
0:12.8	Technology.
0:13.7	Unbelievable.
0:14.7	Without further ado.
0:15.6	This is the Naked Scientists.
0:18.3	Hello, welcome to the Naked Scientists podcast.
0:22.6	This is the program where we bring you the biggest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine. I'm Chris Smith. And this
0:28.2	week, Titans of Science continues, and joining me is vaccine specialist Andrew Pollard, one of the
0:34.8	architects of the Oxford Astrozenica COVID jab.
0:38.6	From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the Naked Scientists.
0:47.8	Andrew Pollard was born in Tumbridge Wells in Kent on the 29th of August 1965.
0:58.7	He attended St Peter's Catholic School in Bournemouth before studying medicine at St. Botholomew's Hospital Medical School in London.
1:06.0	He trained in paediatrics at Birmingham Children's Hospital, specialised in paediatric infectious diseases
1:11.9	at St Mary's in London, and then joined British Columbia Children's Hospital in Vancouver as their
1:17.3	clinical fellow. He currently serves as the Aschral Professor of Infection and Immunity at the University
1:22.9	of Oxford and is Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group at the Department of Paediatrics.
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