Sentences with phrase «zika vaccine trials»
Science's picks for Areas to watch in 2017 are human embryo research, Zika vaccine trials, the search for Planet Nine, and the impacts on research of the U.S. election and «Brexit» vote.
http://science.sciencemag.org/ Not exact matches
Then if there is a Zika outbreak in its area, a centre would be ready to begin a vaccine trial straight away.
A phase I clinical trial for a Zika vaccine which began in August 2016 in partnership with the Wistar Institute and Inovio / GeneOne Pharmaceuticals aims to discover the safety and effectiveness of a DNA vaccine for Zika.
By some estimates one in 5,000 Zika patients develops GBS, but the question of whether the vaccine — which would contain some viral DNA if not the whole virus — will also cause this rare side effect will not be adequately answered in small trials that contain less than 100 volunteers.
Three vaccine approaches have been shown to protect monkeys against Zika infection, and human trials began in July.
The ZPIV vaccine candidate was developed by WRAIR as part of the US Department of Defense response to the 2015 - 2016 outbreak of Zika virus in the Americas, and it was advanced to a Phase 1 trial in November 2016.
Healthy adults mounted strong immune responses after receiving an investigational whole inactivated Zika virus vaccine, according to interim analyses of three Phase 1, placebo - controlled, double - blind trials conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), and Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
«We observed rapid and durable protective immunity without adverse events, and so we think this candidate vaccine represents a promising strategy for the global fight against Zika virus,» said senior author Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, a professor of Infectious Disease at Penn. «We hope to start clinical trials in 12 to 18 months.»
Ferguson's team is calling for trials of Zika treatments and vaccines to be designed so that even if the epidemic burns out, they are ready to kick in quickly should Zika roar back again.
Candidate Zika vaccines, which have shown early promise, should be in clinical trials next year.
If new money does not surface soon, Fauci warned that human trials of Zika vaccines might be delayed.
«The rapid advancement of Zika vaccine candidates into clinical trials reflects the uniquely focused and effective collaboration among scientists in the field to address this important global problem,» said Barouch.
Nelson Michael of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, says that the trial Zika vaccine will be tested on mice and monkeys that already have antibodies to dengue, to see if that interferes with the vaccine.
PHILADELPHIA --(April 19, 2018)-- The Wistar Institute and partners at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, and GeneOne Life Science were recognized among the Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards by the Clinical Research Forum for their ground - breaking phase 1 DNA - based Zika vaccine research — the first trial of a Zika vaccine in humans, which proved safe and effective.
In just the last 6 years the EID outbreaks of MERS, Ebola, Zika, CHIKV as examples have underscored the importance of rapid vaccine development and deployment capabilities to meet EID challenges, as well as growing appreciation for creativity and flexibility in clinical trial design.
The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) began vaccinations today in a Phase 1 human clinical trial to test the safety and immunogenicity of the Zika purified inactivated virus (ZPIV) vaccine.
[NIH officials accelerate timeline for human trials of Zika vaccine, saying they will now begin in the summer]
A study published in Nature reports the results of trials of two potential vaccines against the Zika virus in mice.
«But, overall, this report illustrates well the current rapid pace of Zika vaccine development and one US company (Inovio) reported recently plans to start a trial of their DNA vaccine technology for Zika very soon.»
Recently at Wistar, Muthumani was one of the creators of a Zika vaccine that was the first to enter clinical trial.
More than a dozen experimental clinical therapies and vaccines have been developed from research from the Weiner laboratory, including the first Zika vaccine in clinical trials, as well as a novel immunotherapy for HPV - associated cancer and precancer.
The study, published in the August issue of the journal Science Communication, examines what happened in August 2016 after the launch of the first human trial of a Zika vaccine.
Last Wednesday, U.S. health officials announced that a potential vaccine for the Zika virus had entered early clinical trials to assess its safety in humans.
In other news, research on a potential vaccine for the Zika virus entered early clinical trials last week.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration said last week that it will transfer $ 81 million from existing federal health programs so there's enough money to continue trials of a Zika vaccine.
On Monday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the launch of the first of five clinical trials in humans to test the safety and effectiveness of a Zika vaccine.