What It Takes To Create A Vaccine

The University of Arizona Health Sciences

To understand the path from pandemic to vaccine, Dr. Yin Chen, an associate professor in UArizona College of Pharmacy and BIO5 member, explains what it takes to train the immune system to fight off a virus. Dr. Chen is not working on a COVID-19 vaccine, but he has spent his career studying the effect of viruses, such as those that cause the common cold and the flu, on the lungs.