Dr Ellie Barnes talks about her research on Hepatitis C and her work on a T cell vaccine.
Hepatitis C vaccine
Dr Ellie Barnes aims to develop a prophylactic and a therapeutic hepatitis C virus vaccine to combat a global epidemic currently infecting 170 million people worldwide. Many chronically infected patients silently develop complications of liver disease that can include hepatocellular cancer, liver cirrhosis and liver failure.
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