Episode 29: COVID-19, Vaccines and Beyond with Prof. Nikolai Petrovsky – Vaccine developer, PhD in Immunology, Specialist Endocrinologist Part 2.
Professor Nik Petrovsky comes back on the podcast to discuss the results of his Phase 3 trials and his protein-based vaccine which has now been approved overseas. It is the first Australian produced vaccine that has been brought to market and is currently one of only 23 COVID-19 vaccines approved in at least one country.
Professor Petrovsky graduated from Medicine at the University of Tasmania in 1982. He then went on to do his Fellowship specialising in Endocrinology. Not stopping there, he completed a PhD in Immunology at the Walter & Eliza Hall institute in Melbourne, one of the world’s leading Immunology research centres. In addition to being an active clinician, Nikolai is a Professor of Medicine at Flinders University and Chairman and Research director of the company known as Vaxine Pty Ltd, an Adelaide-based biotechnology company focused on vaccine development. Over the last 18 years he has been awarded over $50 million dollars in vaccine research grants including multiple grants from the US government’s National Institutes of Health. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed research papers.
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