Peter Seeberger - Breaking the Wall of Expensive Vaccines @Falling Walls 2009

Combining synthetic organic chemistry and immunology, Peter H. Seeberger examines the biochemical basis to identify sugars to accelerate the development of inexpensive vaccines. Seeberger, who, after many years as a professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) and at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), recently became director at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and professor at Freie Universität Berlin.