Ep. 50: mRNA vaccines in India ft. Soham Sankaran
Podcast: Bretton Goods
Episode: Ep. 50: mRNA vaccines in India ft. Soham Sankaran
Pub date: 2023-08-21
I spoke to Soham Sankaran who runs PopVax, an Indian mRNA vaccine company. Their goal is to build low-cost broadly-protective vaccines to protect against the entire sarbecovirus species. Read Soham's experience here (https://chronicles.popvax.com/....p/three-meetings-and as a complement to this episode. Also check out their jobs page (https://jobs.popvax.com/) for opportunities.
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This episode includes
How he started PopVax and (went bankrupt in the process)
Why there hasn't been a successful Indian mRNA vaccine yet
Why developing countries can't afford drugs for rare diseases
What they're doing to fix it
Their biggest constraints
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