A/Prof Keith Chappell is a co-leader, together with Prof Paul Young, of the University of Queensland program to produce a vaccine for COVID-19. Keith is a Molecular Virologist whose research has focused primarily on vaccine development and is one of the inventors of a UQ’s molecular clamp platform. Keith has played a leading role in designing and implementing an epidemic response vaccine pipeline which enabled the progression of UQ’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate from sequence information to clinical trial dosing within 6months.