Christiaan Monden lives with wife and young children near Oxford in the UK where he works at the university. A few weeks ago he saw a request on Twitter from the university's Jenner Institute vaccine team for volunteers for a trial they had started. "They needed healthy volunteers and I met the criteria.
I’m a blood donor, I’ve done medical trials when I was a student many years ago. I have no reason not to participate," he told RTE radio’s This Week programme.
After going through a screening process Monden, a professor of sociology at Nuffield College in Oxford, was told that he will get either the control group vaccine or the actual vaccine. "That will be next Wednesday," he said, adding that he was comfortable with injections and blood