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Ep. 50: mRNA vaccines in India ft. Soham Sankaran

Ep. 50: mRNA vaccines in India ft. Soham Sankaran

Update: 2023-08-21
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I spoke to Soham Sankaran who runs PopVax, an Indian mRNA vaccine company. Their goal is to build low-cost broadly-protective vaccines to protect against the entire sarbecovirus species. Read Soham's experience here (https://chronicles.popvax.com/p/three-meetings-and-six-million-funerals) as a complement to this episode. Also check out their jobs page (https://jobs.popvax.com/) for opportunities.




This episode includes



  • How he started PopVax and (went bankrupt in the process)

  • Why there hasn't been a successful Indian mRNA vaccine yet

  • Why developing countries can't afford drugs for rare diseases

  • What they're doing to fix it

  • Their biggest constraints

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Ep. 50: mRNA vaccines in India ft. Soham Sankaran

Ep. 50: mRNA vaccines in India ft. Soham Sankaran

Pradyumna Prasad