Vaccine development

The January 26^th meeting of Madison Rotary will feature a talk by Tom Haverty, a Rotary member.  Dr. Haverty is a physician scientist who spent over 30 years in Pharmaceutical R and D leading to the approval of numerous drugs and biologics. He received a BS from Stanford, an MD from UCSD and trained in Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Immunology at Penn prior to joining the pharmaceutical industry.  Dr. Haverty will provide a brief history of vaccines, followed by a description of how the mRNA vaccines work to combat the Covid viruses.