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The Next Frontier for Protecting Newborns

By Kathrin U. Jansen, Ph.D. - This article originally published on Huffington Post

Our Head of Vaccines R&D explores the potential power of maternal vaccines to help give more infants around the world a better chance at a healthy life. Read more in this article: “The Next Frontier for Protecting Newborns” in Huffington Post.

Vaccines are complex feats of scientific engineering, but we have decades of expertise on the subject to help guide us, in addition to a talented group of vaccine R&D colleagues that are ready for these challenges.

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