Harry Boateng, Pediatrician, Presbyterian Hospital / Lead Clinician,
Malaria Vaccine Research, Malaria Research Centre, Ghana
I was particularly impressed with how well they chose the «roommate» assignments for the hospital stay during
the malaria vaccine research study.
Not exact matches
A publicly owned drug
research and production utility, operating at cost for public benefit instead of private profit, would use high revenues from drugs that are taken daily or frequently in order to subsidize
research and production of low - revenue drugs like
vaccines for Ebola,
malaria, and other infectious diseases that are used once.
I am switching from B.S. and M.S. in toxicology to a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology with a focus on
malaria vaccine development
research.
Eran Bendavid of Stanford University, US, discussing the
research in an accompanying Perspective, says: «Averting deaths of young children from
malaria or
vaccine - preventable diseases such as polio or measles promotes more stable and prosperous societies.
Malariacontrol.net What it is: A part of Africa@Home, malariacontrol.net works with population models to determine the best strategy to control
malaria — from
researching vaccines to deploying mosquito nets.
It opens a new avenue for
research on
vaccines to prevent
malaria parasites invading red blood cells.
The trial, which is still in progress, is the result of a collaboration between GSK, the PATH
Malaria Vaccine Initiative and a number of
research institutes around the world.
«Together with The National Institute for Medical
Research Tanzania, we are in the process of preparing phase I trials for a
vaccine to prevent parasite binding in the placenta and
malaria during pregnancy,» he explains.
The Gates Foundation brings treatment to the indigent and funds lifesaving
research, including development of new tuberculosis,
malaria, and AIDS
vaccines.
Developing - country
research is producing world - class results: a meningitis
vaccine in Cuba,
malaria treatment in Thailand, a $ 300 basic computer in Brazil.
While at NIMBioS, Agusto's
research agenda includes designing an optimal control model for the
malaria vaccine.
Affiliation Division of
Malaria Vaccine Development, Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
The search for a
vaccine against
malaria remains high on the global
research agenda for many years.
April 11, 2018 - Ruth Nussenzweig, who for a half - century pursued one of medical science's most elusive goals, a
vaccine for
malaria, helping to bring the
research from the seems - impossible stage to the brink of a breakthrough, died on April 1 in Manhattan.
Her
research involves preclinical immunology and efficacy of
vaccines against H5N1 pandemic influenza,
malaria, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis using mouse, ferret and guinea pig models.
Mahamadou has gained wide experience in positions such as Assistant Professor of Parasitology, Department of Epidemiology of Parasitic Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry, Bamako, and Associate Professor of Parasitology - Mycology at the same university, where he currently holds two positions: Professor of Parasitology - Mycology, and he is Head of the Mali
Malaria Vaccine Development Unit,
Malaria Research and Training Center.
Among other things, it features articles on new developments in HIV cure
research, recent studies that show promise but also possible pitfalls of using adenovirus vectors in HIV
vaccine candidates, and the funding crisis at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria.
The
research of the Department of Parasitology is focused on developing
vaccines and drugs against
malaria and TB, using non-human primate models.