Robin Shattock, head of mucosal infection and immunity at Imperial
College London, said he is now at the stage to start testing the
vaccine on animals as early as next week with human studies in the
summer if enough funding is secured, Sky said.
"Conventional approaches usually take at least two to three years
before you even get to the clinic," he told Sky. "And we've gone
from that sequence to generating a candidate in the laboratory in 14
days."
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The vaccine will be too late for this current outbreak but it will
be crucial if there is another one, Sky said.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by Estelle Shirbon)
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