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The new science of personalized vaccines

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Ofer Levy |

TEDxBeaconStreet

• November 2019

At the intersection of precision medicine and vaccinology lies a revolutionary scientific pursuit: personalized vaccines. Infectious disease specialist Ofer Levy introduces this promising medical approach, in which tailored inoculations will enable effective immunization of the most vulnerable among us, including the young and elderly, and shares how we're now venturing into a new era of sustaining and supporting human life. (This talk contains graphic medical imagery.)

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At the intersection of precision medicine and vaccinology lies a revolutionary scientific pursuit: personalized vaccines. Infectious disease specialist Ofer Levy introduces this promising medical approach, in which tailored inoculations will enable effective immunization of the most vulnerable among us, including the young and elderly, and shares how we're now venturing into a new era of sustaining and supporting human life. (This talk contains graphic medical imagery.)

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Ofer Levy uses new technologies and the principles of precision medicine to develop tailored vaccines to protect the vulnerable, such as the young and the elderly, from infection.

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This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxBeaconStreet, an independent event. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Read more about TEDx.

Help support our lifesaving work developing vaccines against coronavirus, influenza, HIV, pertussis (whooping cough) and opioid use.

Follow Dr. Ofer Levy on Twitter.

Learn more about the Precision Vaccines Program, the international network of academia, government and industry bringing precision medicine to vaccinology.