Science Bar Hopping is a science festival organized by the Foundation for Infrastructure and Educational Programs - FIOP (RUSNANO Group) and the media company “Bumaga” from Saint Petersburg.

Vladimir gave an interview on a very important and interesting topic – how to produce vaccines. This is a unique chance to prise out the whole truth firsthand from a CEO of a pharmaceutical company.

Some interesting quotes:

“It is widely accepted that one of the three main phenomena that influenced the growth of life expectancy in the XX century (along with clean water and eradication of hunger) is the widespread introduction of vaccination. This has helped to increase the average life expectancy of the world’s population by 20-30 years.”

“Vaccines protect us and our children from various infections. As a father of two small children, I will tell you honestly - we do all the necessary vaccinations, including the combined vaccines produced at our factory.”

“The obvious trend is to improve convenience and ease of use of vaccines: combination vaccines instead of monovalent vaccines. You can take just two (!) combined vaccines to get protected from ten infections at the same time (such as diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B, Hemophilus infection, polio, measles, rubella, mumps, chicken pox).”

You can watch the recorded interview with Vladimir Khristenko in Russian by clicking on the “Source” button.