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Devastated UQ scientists tried for weeks to fix problem with COVID-19 vaccine

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Professor Young said the team, which had been working on the vaccine for the past 11 months, was “devastated” but he stressed that was the reason clinical trials were done.

“It’s particularly tough on a day not far in advance of when we were going to announce what great phase-one data we had, which was that the vaccine was shown to be safe and extremely well tolerated and induced an antibody response in excess of what is seen in recovered patients,” he said.

UQ scientists Professor Keith Chappell (left), Professor Paul Young and Professor Trent Munro explain to the media why their vaccine program is being halted.Credit:Stuart Layt

“We only heard about 24 hours ago of the decision to pull funding, a decision made by CSL and the…



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