Social media creator and vlogger, Lauren Rowe, makes and shares videos about living with and battling cystic fibrosis. The pandemic has kept her indoors and mostly alone, as her condition puts her in a high-risk category for experiencing complications from COVID-19. Even so, her spirits remain high as she knows first-hand the importance and power of clinical research to combat illness and disease.

Professor of pharmaceutical biology and theme leader for drug delivery, disposition and dynamics at Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Australia, Colin Pouton, comments on mRNA-focused vaccine development and refinement efforts taking place at at Monash University, the same research lab responsible for some of Lauren Rowe’s life-altering health improvements.