Empowered Patient Podcast

Steve Reed, Co-Founder, President, and CEO of HDT Bio, has spent his life focusing on tropical diseases and points out how the cost of developing and manufacturing vaccines determines access for a global population. HDT Bio was founded to develop more cost-effective technology to induce broader immune responses to various diseases. Their advanced RNA platform AMPLIFY is a technology applied to developing mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases and a therapeutic vaccine to help prevent recurrence and prolong survival from cancer.  Steve elaborates, "COVID was something that came up right after we founded the company, and so the National Institute of Health asked us and funded us to develop a novel platform that could complement the platforms already in place for mRNA vaccines. Other indications that are incredibly important include other viruses. They're always coming up, and they're always mutating. But you probably read in the news about fungal infections on the increase in the United States and other countrie