How is New Zealand contributing to the urgent global quest for a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine? American vaccine expert Dr Fran Priddy recently joined The Malaghan Institute as Clinical Director of the Vaccine Alliance Aotearoa NZ (VAANZ). VAANZ is a multidisciplinary team of local and international collaborators specialising in vaccine research, development, and manufacturing. Dr Priddy has spent much of her career researching and developing clinical vaccines for infectious diseases including HIV. We'll ask her about the current vaccine contenders, and the tricky process of getting a vaccine out of the lab, into trials, and then production.