(Photo: Dr. David Weiner of The Wistar Institute) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
News about the COVID-19 novel coronavirus is everywhere as the respiratory virus continues its spread around the world and across the United States, with new outbreaks and infections reported daily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To bring some clarity and expertise to the rising concerns\nabout COVID-19 and present his thoughts about how research is progressing to\ndevelop a future vaccine against the virus, Dr. David Weiner<\/a>, the\ndirector of the vaccine and immunotherapy center at Philadelphia\u2019s Wistar Institute<\/a> will\nbe our special guest on MyPhillyLawyer\u2019s<\/em>\nCourt\nRadio<\/a><\/em> this Sunday at 7 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Weiner, who is also the executive vice president of\nThe Wistar Institute, will be in studio to discuss Wistar’s efforts to create a\nsynthetic vaccine to curb the novel coronavirus virus that is spreading\nglobally. At Wistar, which is a\nworld leader in early-stage discovery science in the areas of cancer,\nimmunology and infectious disease, Weiner directs a translational\nmolecular immunology research team focused on creating novel immunotherapy approaches\nfor disease prevention and treatment. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the\nUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his guest appearance on Court Radio<\/em>, Weiner will discuss the progress of ongoing critical research\nthat is being done to find a vaccine for COVID-19 and talk about how long it is\nexpected to take before good results are discovered that can help stop the\nvirus\u2019 spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a recent interview with National\nPublic Radio<\/a>, Weiner, whose research team also worked on a vaccine for\nEbola after a 2014 outbreak, said that new techniques for rapid vaccine\ndevelopment could help bring about a vaccine for COVID-19 more quickly compared\nto previous diseases. In the past, vaccines could take a decade or more to\ncreate, but the new techniques being used by researchers shaved that time to\nabout 15-18 months for Ebola and to about 11 months for a vaccine that\naddressed an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea\nin recent years, the story reported. The NPR story said that a vaccine for\nCOVID-19 could potentially be ready by the fall of 2020 using these new\nresearch techniques being implemented by Weiner\u2019s team and a growing group of other\nresearchers and pharmaceutical companies around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Vaccines are really our most\nsuccessful tool to prevent an infectious disease,” Weiner told NPR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Weiner and his team were\nalready working on a research project<\/a> that was\nlooking at COVID-19 back in December before it began growing by leaps and bounds,\naccording to a Feb. 21 story by the research journal, The Scientist<\/em>. That research is being led by pharmaceutical\ncompany Inovio<\/a> Pharmaceuticals, which developed a\nDNA-based vaccine for the coronavirus known as MERS, the story reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe had been paying\nvery close attention to the [COVID-19] cases increasing over Christmas in\nChina,\u201d Weiner told The Scientist. <\/em>When needed COVID-19 genetic\nsequences became available in January, Weiner\u2019s team joined scientists from\nInovio, as well as researchers from Universit\u00e9 Laval, the National Institutes\nof Health\u2019s Rocky Mountain Laboratories and other organizations, to seek answers\nto solving SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During his guest visit to Court Radio, Weiner will talk\nabout these efforts and give a status update. \u201cWistar feels compelled to deploy\nits expertise<\/a> and its technological advancements to combat global emerging\ninfectious diseases as part of its mission and is proud to be part of one of\nthe first initiatives to approach this evolving global health threat,\u201d Weiner\nsaid in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We welcome\nyou to listen in this Sunday morning at 7 a.m. ET to hear Weiner\u2019s views.\nHosted by managing partner Dean Weitzman of MyPhillyLawyer<\/em>, Court Radio<\/em>\ncan be heard on Philadelphia\u2019s Old School 100.3 WRNB, Boom 103.9 or on Classix\n107.9 WPPZ FM via live radio or online at the websites for each station. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n At personal\ninjury law firm MyPhillyLawyer<\/em>, our\nattorneys work tirelessly every day on behalf our clients on a wide range of\ncases, including medical malpractice, car crashes, slip and falls and more. 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