Kate Bingham
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
These are innovations that weren't even contemplated really 10 years ago. So that the fact that we've now vaccinated billions of people with mRNA vaccines during the pandemic, and now we have the potential for the first mRNA cancer vaccine to get approval at the end of next year. That is something that is just beyond what we would have ever contemplated.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
Second, on dementia, we've now seen the first two drugs get approved that actually alter the course of the disease. Now, the drugs aren't perfect, but they at least prove the concept that we can actually alter the course of these devastating diseases. And then you think about obesity. And again, 10 years ago, we weren't thinking about these GLP-1 agonists.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
And what we're seeing now with these drugs is it's not just about appetite suppression, but there are clear clinical benefits well beyond just obesity. So in terms of cardiovascular benefits, the data there is very strong. But actually, what we haven't yet seen, again, is the potential benefits to dementia.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
And again, I would expect that these drugs will have a positive effect on the treatment of dementia.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
No, unquestionably the pace of innovation is picking up. 90% of drugs that go into clinical trials will fail. With the use of AI, you can reduce that failure rate.
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
Currently, our system is set up that you wait till people have severe symptoms by and large, and then you start treating them with new medicines. What we need to do is to get diagnosed earlier and treat ahead of time before you start having the severe symptoms. So my expertise in vaccines is something that I'm very...
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
keen on continuing to push because there is no question that preventative vaccines is ultimately where we need to get to but supposing we all went into the chemist in our 40s and we had a blood test in the same way as we get our cholesterol tested and they say hmm we found a little bit of this cancer if you could then take off the shelf a vaccine and say right we'll vaccinate you against that particular cancer type that we can find that should help prime your immune system to say
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Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
When you see a cell that's expressing this, take it out because we don't want any tumours to form. And then you take that further and say, well, why can't we do that for Alzheimer's disease? Why can't we vaccinate ahead of time so you don't wait for neuronal damage and cognitive dysfunction? Why can't we intervene earlier and prevent that neuronal loss from even happening?