Introduction of Peter Marks
January 22, 2021Information
Carlos R. Oliveira, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics (infectious diseases); and director of Congenital Infectious Diseases at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, introduced Peter Marks, MD, PhD, keynote speaker.
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- 00:00Hello everyone, I'm Carlos Oliveira.
- 00:02I'm one of the Co leads for the
- 00:04vaccine Network initiatives here.
- 00:06Yell and I have the great honor of
- 00:08introducing our keynote speaker today.
- 00:10Doctor Peter Marks,
- 00:11who is the director of the Center for
- 00:14Biologics Evaluation and Research at the FDA.
- 00:16Doctor Marks is a Brooklyn native
- 00:18who received both his MDM PhD New
- 00:21York University after medical school.
- 00:22He moved to Boston to complete residency
- 00:25in internal medicine and fellowship in
- 00:27Human can Brigham and Women's Hospital.
- 00:29After Fellowship Doctor Marks remaining
- 00:31program where in addition to serving as
- 00:33the clinical director for hematology,
- 00:35he was actually quite an
- 00:37accomplished musician.
- 00:37Here he is 20 years ago as a member
- 00:40of the longer Symphony Orchestra.
- 00:42Doctor Marks went on to work at
- 00:45the Pharmaceutical industry for a
- 00:47few years prior to come into Yale.
- 00:49To lead our adult leukemia program
- 00:51on the top left, believe it or not,
- 00:53is doctor Marks in 2007.
- 00:55At that point he was speaking about the
- 00:57novel Count Cancer Therapeutics on NPR.
- 00:59I believe in it on the bottom.
- 01:02Is Doctor Mark said smile Cancer Hospital
- 01:04where he served as the Chief Clinical
- 01:07Officer after it was built in 2010?
- 01:09He remained here again until 2012
- 01:11when he joined the FDA and was quickly
- 01:13promoted to the director of the Center
- 01:15for Biologics Evaluation Research.
- 01:17Currently I,
- 01:17as one of the top official at the
- 01:20FDA Doctor Marks overseas more
- 01:22than 1200 scientists,
- 01:23including the team of vaccine knowledge
- 01:25is who are currently reviewing
- 01:26the data for the covid vaccines,
- 01:28which we've all been very excited about
- 01:31over the last few months as I've learned.
- 01:33More about Doctor Markson I've realized
- 01:36that I have all his accomplishments.
- 01:39The one achievement that's the most
- 01:41impressive to me at least is the one
- 01:44that he gets the least amount of credit
- 01:47for which his operation warp speed.
- 01:49But many people argue is the most
- 01:52significant scientific achievements
- 01:53since the landing on the moon.
- 01:55And although the president and his
- 01:57secretaries love to take credit
- 01:59for warp speed,
- 02:00the operation was actually the
- 02:01brainchild of Doctor Marks.
- 02:03Who I'm told is an unabashed
- 02:05as Star Trek enthusiasts.
- 02:06And the term want speed is
- 02:08actually quite interesting to me.
- 02:10It refers to traveling at speeds
- 02:12that are faster than light,
- 02:13something that we all know is not possible
- 02:16based on the current laws of physics.
- 02:18However,
- 02:18as a fellow Star Trek nerd myself,
- 02:21I can tell you that is actually quite
- 02:23an appropriate term for this operation.
- 02:25You see,
- 02:26the idea of warps,
- 02:27we comes from the thought that if
- 02:29we can warp space or full space we
- 02:32can travel faster than linear line.
- 02:34So if you can imagine space is a piece
- 02:36of paper and you draw a line in it.
- 02:39You can get from the beginning to
- 02:41the end of that line much faster if
- 02:44you fold the piece of paper in half,
- 02:46so by skipping all that that
- 02:48space you can go
- 02:49from point A to point B much faster,
- 02:52and this is in many ways with Doctor
- 02:54Marx envisioned or or thought of when
- 02:57it came to warp speed because he was
- 02:59able to eliminate all of this Dead
- 03:01Space from what was previously a fairly
- 03:03linear vaccine development pipeline.
- 03:04And as a result we have now not one,
- 03:07but two covert vaccines within a year.
- 03:09And which is a remarkable achievement.
- 03:13I saw something that if you
- 03:15had asked me a year ago,
- 03:17if I ask any of the vaccine ologist
- 03:19in the panel year ago they would
- 03:21have said it's impossible to do this.
- 03:24According to all the laws
- 03:25of modern vaccinology.
- 03:26So I will finish with this slide because
- 03:29I really like the way the title of this
- 03:31New York Park Washington Post article,
- 03:34because it summarizes fairly well when I,
- 03:36when I've learned about Doctor Mark switches,
- 03:38he's ineffective.
- 03:39A brilliant physician scientist who is humble
- 03:41and really uninterested in the spotlight.
- 03:43But who's important work has and continues
- 03:46to ensure the health of this country.
- 03:49So without further ado Doctor marks.