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Sir John Bell

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Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

It's going to be, well, it's a bit of the T cells, but it's also a bit of the innate immune response.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

And don't forget mate cells and don't forget a bit of this and that.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

So we think that if we can assemble the right data set from these structured environments,

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

we can start to predict and anticipate which type of immune response you need to stimulate both for therapy and for protection against disease.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

And hopefully that will actually create a whole scientific foundation for vaccine development, but also other kinds of immune therapy and things like cancer and potentially autoimmune disease as well.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

So that's a big push.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

For us, we're just busy.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

The lab isn't set up.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

We've got somebody to run the lab now.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

We've got the human challenge model set up with Andy Pollard and colleagues.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

So we're building that out.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

And within six months, I think we'll be starting to collect data.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

So I'm just kind of hoping we can get the immune system in a bit more structured.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

Because you're absolutely right.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

It's a bit pin the tail on the donkey at the moment.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

You have no idea what's actually causing what.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

No, it's amazing.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

And, you know, you wouldn't have predicted a lot of this stuff.

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

And I...

Ground Truths
Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

I think that means that we haven't really got under the skin of the mechanistic events here, and we need to do more to try and get there.