From COVID-19 research to vaccine application: why might it take 17 months not 17 years and what are the wider lessons?

• Main Authors: Stephen R. Hanney (Author), Steven Wooding (Author), Jon Sussex (Author), Jonathan Grant (Author)
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• Udgivet: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract It is often said that it takes 17 years to move medical research from bench to bedside. In a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) world, such time-lags feel intolerable. In these extraordinary circumstances could years be made into months? If so, could those lessons be used to accelerate medical...