Finding a safer way to make the Polio vaccine

Researchers at the University of Leeds are developing a cheaper and safer way of making the polio vaccine.

The pioneering work is featured in the latest MadeAtUni campaign, a celebration of the pioneering research taking place in UK universities.

The focus of the campaign is scientists involved in health research and innovation.

The Leeds’ team, from the Faculty of Biological Sciences, has shown that the polio vaccine can be manufactured from harmless virus-like particles, doing away with the need to use a live virus which carries the risk of the virus escaping. Read more.