India, Feb. 28 -- At the outset, congratulations for winning the prestigious Tata Transformation Prize 2024. What are your plans post this achievement?

We will be using the prize money to make the antigens for the RSV vaccine and to test them in small animals for their ability to elicit neutralising antibodies and to protect the animals from viral challenges. Once we have the results in hand, we will engage with other partners to take the final formulation forward, first into clinical trials and subsequently commercialisation. Our immediate industry partner is Mynvax, which is a startup that I co-founded a few years ago, and we work closely with them.

Could you shed light on the RSV vaccine that your lab is working on?

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