Charlotte Barker

Likes: science, puns, peanut butter, bees, feminism, vaccines, editing the atom.

[Gates Medical Research Institute @GatesMRI]

Our Head of CMC, Piper Trelstad, had the opportunity to speak with @EditorCharlotte at @VaccineInsights to discuss her career in the vaccine field, keys to successful partnerships and new vaccine technologies.

Read the interview: https://t.co/2qLGlErYVs

[Charlotte Barker @EditorCharlotte]

"The phone never rang – in fact, it was years before people were interested," Drew Weissman told me last year about his pioneering mRNA research with Katalin Karikó. On Monday, they were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine!
https://t.co/8yfuwegJjP

[Charlotte Barker @EditorCharlotte]

This is a crazy/fascinating story! Tasmanian devils are being decimated by contagious cancers transmitted by their constant fighting. Now a vaccine that primes the immune system against tumor cells is going into trials.
https://t.co/50a7VrLQUH

[Vaccine Insights @VaccineInsights]

Don’t miss out on this recent Vaccine Insights issue: RNA vaccines Part 1: Exploring future potential

#vaccines #RNAvaccines

Link to issue online https://t.co/GJzVDQNSKv

[Charlotte Barker @EditorCharlotte]

Best part of being Editor of @VaccineInsights is talking to amazing, passionate scientists like @CarinaDewiJoe (@JennerInstitute), who worked 16+ hour days through the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic to scale up manufacturing of the ChAdOx1 vaccine platform!

[Vaccine Insights @VaccineInsights]

Optimizing adenovirus vector-based #vaccineproduction

Read this interview to learn about University of Oxford’s Carina Joe’s role in scaling up the #adenovirusvectoredvaccine:

https://t.co/VunDWGgHLX

[Vaccine Insights @VaccineInsights]

Exploring original #antigenic sin as the basis for S. aureus vaccine failures

Read the article below to learn more about the recall of memory response to a primary #influenzainfection by subsequent #influenza infections or vaccines

https://t.co/j6hDt1UGu8

[Vaccine Insights @VaccineInsights]

Embracing Complexity: Pioneering enteric disease researcher @GKangInd discusses her work on #rotavirus vaccines, understanding immune responses to #oralvaccines and mentorship for the next generation of Indian #healthsciences researchers. https://t.co/1Kz0SRJYQw

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

BioInsights - “Should we vaccinate against long-COVID?” The latest article from our ⁦@TheLancet⁩ Commission on COVID19 (Vaccine Subgroup) https://t.co/Rubl8jAJTt

[PATH @PATHtweets]

How is the pandemic changing the vaccines space? In a new @VaccineInsights Spotlight guest edited by PATH's Dr. Fred Cassels, some of the world's top experts explore how COVID-19 has changed – and is still changing – the vaccine field. https://t.co/aWAz4g5Vlv

[Bhavna Lall, MD MPH MPA FACP @lall_bhavna]

As new #covid19 variants spread globally, more research is needed on the impact of #LongCOVID as infection rates rise.
Our latest article in @VaccineInsights.
Lancet @Commissioncovid task force on #vaccines and #therapeutics.
@PeterHotez @mebottazzi

https://t.co/zhek0Wqcyg

[Vaccine Insights @VaccineInsights]

Should we #vaccinate against long-Covid?
By @PeterHotez et al.

An important additional role for #covid #vaccination could be in preventing/treating post-acute #covid19 syndrome, known as #longcovid.

Read more here: https://t.co/ZJewmWu6MC

[Vaccine Insights @VaccineInsights]

RNA vaccines: past, present & future

In this interview with #RNA pioneer Drew Weissman, find out how #RNAvaccines became the hottest technology in #vaccinedevelopment

Read more: https://t.co/VNGcVwGJK2 #vaccines #covid

[Clover Biopharmaceuticals @CloverBiopharma]

How has the #COVID19 pandemic changed the #vaccine field? Nick Jackson, Clover’s President of Global R&D, opines in the 1st edition of @VaccineInsights with guest editor, Frederick J Cassels, @PATHtweets https://t.co/uJVvGBohcZ

[Vaccine Insights @VaccineInsights]

#Vaccine R&D in the post-COVID-19 era
We sat down with Philip Dormitzer @GSK to discuss speeding up vaccine development, the future of #RNAvaccines, and how the #pandemic has shaken up the industry

Read more here: https://t.co/wmH1Vrc9Mp

[Charlotte Barker @EditorCharlotte]

Huge thanks to Peter Gilbert (@fredhutch), Peter Dull (@gatesfoundation), and Stanley Plotkin (@Penn) for sharing their insights in our Expert Roundtable on correlates of protection - and to our excellent moderator Fred Cassels (@PATHtweets)!
https://t.co/dKAdfod9BZ

[Vaccine Insights @VaccineInsights]

We brought together three leading experts to discuss how the COVID-19 #pandemic has advanced our understanding of correlates of protection and where further research is needed.

#vaccination #covid

Read/watch the roundtable discussion here: https://t.co/sIgwd9Eqp2

[Vaccine Insights @VaccineInsights]

Interview: In search of vaccinology’s Holy Grail - developing a pan-sarbecovirus #vaccine

We speak to Linfa Wang about preparations for the next #pandemic

#vaccination

Read the full #interview here: https://t.co/DCWEaBrmqg

[PATH @PATHtweets]

How is the COVID-19 pandemic changing the vaccine landscape? The inaugural issue of @VaccineInsights, guest edited by PATH’s Global Head, Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases, Fred Cassels, asks leading experts just that. https://t.co/bT1Lbv2qti

[Charlotte Barker @EditorCharlotte]

Very cool to speak with Dr. Fauci! Wishing him a speedy recovery from his own bout of COVID💐

[Vaccine Insights @VaccineInsights]

@EditorCharlotte speaks with Dr Anthony Fauci @NIAIDNews about endemicity, pandemic preparedness, misinformation, and the potential for broadly protective vaccines. https://t.co/lsHGCUmPzJ

[Charlotte Barker @EditorCharlotte]

Our new journal - @VaccineInsights - is live! Putting the launch issue together has been exciting, enlightening, and eye-opening! Take a look to find out what vaccine experts think are the key lessons we should learn from COVID-19...

[Vaccine Insights @VaccineInsights]

In the inaugural issue of Vaccine Insights, we asked leading vaccine experts to share their thoughts on how the pandemic has changed vaccine development, manufacture, and delivery – and how we can better protect against future pandemic threats. https://t.co/dGy3EdfeeF

[Charlotte Barker @EditorCharlotte]

Lovely to see bumblebees coming out of hibernation as the weather warms up - here’s what to do if you spot one on the ground 🐝

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

Lots of people asking us about #bumblebees at the moment - why they’re seeing them on the ground - so here’s a quick thread to explain what they’re up to. Please share as every #queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen #bees for next year! 1/7