«The option of rapidly creating a completely synthetic formulation that can be effective as a vaccine is an important addition to currently
available vaccine strategies,» says Hidde Ploegh, an MIT professor of biology, a member of the Whitehead Institute, and an author of the paper, who added that it will be important to assess safety and cost.
Not exact matches
«These results imply that, of the options currently
available utilizing adjuvants included in the national stockpile, based on the immune response data, AS03 should be considered a first - line adjuvant for
strategies incorporating an inactivated H7N9
vaccine in adults,» the authors write.
«Given that approximately 12 percent of human cancers worldwide may be attributed to viruses, and there are no
vaccines currently
available for these five viruses, prevention
strategies to reduce the infections that can lead to cancer are even more critical,» said Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Toxicology Program (NTP).
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on immunization (SAGE) also said countries should consider vaccinating various other groups — such as those most at risk of death and disease — but said each country should map out its own
strategy, depending on what it hopes to achieve and how much
vaccine it has
available.
«The optimal
strategy for protecting people and animals against this deadly disease would be through vaccination, but there are no FDA - licensed plague
vaccines available in the U.S.,» said Ashok Chopra, UTMB professor of microbiology and immunology.
As a part of VIOLIN, we have developed Vaxign, the first web - based publically
available vaccine target design tool based on bioinformatics analysis of genome sequences using the
strategy of reverse vaccinology.
A key program of VIOLIN is Vaxign, the first web - based publically
available vaccine target design tool based on bioinformatics analysis of genome sequences using the
strategy of reverse vaccinology.