Professor Jim Al-Khalili
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535 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 15 Jun
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Yes.
HIV was, of course, incredibly important.
It, at this point, had really spread and was spreading in the developing world.
And the challenge, of course, was we needed a vaccine.
And it turned out that the vaccine effort wasn't focused on the developing world where the widest diversity of strains were.
And so we decided to put together a new initiative to try to help drive that work forward.
How did you manage to do that?
Well, we had some big successes and interesting fundraising.
So ultimately, we ended up taking lots of novel vaccines forward.
We ended up creating research facilities around the world, which was really important because it meant that we could do the trials in Africa, do them in Asia, do them in Latin America.
And the program is still going on, although recently has had some really tough moments.
And yet still no HIV vaccine.
Did you ever despair?
It was hard because, you know, you start out saying people have always asked you, when's it going to happen?
And you say, we don't know, but it's at least 10 years away.
But, you know, the joke was, all right, it's off.
It's always 10 years away.
It is the hardest organism to create a vaccine for.
Why?
When you inject or get injected, it's one or two viruses that get taken.
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