Sentences with phrase «early vaccine trials»

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BioNTech hit the headlines in July when its experimental personalized cancer vaccine, tailored to the tumors of individual patients, kept disease in check in an early - stage clinical trial.

Fiers discovered a key protein on the influenza virus that could serve as a target for a universal vaccine; the drug has shown promise in an early clinical trial.

Ferris, first author of the new study who led trials of the quadrivalent vaccine in 2002, says the earlier, shorter - term evaluation clearly indicated the vaccine worked.

The company plans in October to conduct a separate test specifically to study the seasonal flu vaccine's effectiveness among 480 elderly participants (a demographic often encouraged to get seasonal flu shots), and Phase III efficacy trials across a larger set of demographics are scheduled to begin early next year.

The results of the early - stage vaccine trial suggest that the preventive treatment should be developed further and that scientists are a step closer to being able to counter a potential H7N9 flu pandemic using a clinically tested vaccine, researchers argue April 30 in Science...

An experimental vaccine to prevent the mosquito - borne viral illness chikungunya elicited neutralizing antibodies in all 25 adult volunteers who participated in a recent early - stage clinical trial conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

Early claims for the vaccine have not been borne out, and the results of full trials in the US are still awaited.

The Swiss - based pharmaceutical company said that it had made 10 liters of vaccine that it will use in pre-clinical studies and maybe early clinical trials.

«Vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus shows promise in early trial: Researchers describe a new approach to developing RSV vaccines, reporting promising early results in young children.»

Candidate Zika vaccines, which have shown early promise, should be in clinical trials next year.

For example, although early clinical trials of Listeria - based vaccines have shown that the neutralized bacterium produces only mild flulike symptoms in human patients with cervical cancer, the various methods of genetically disarming the bacteria should be explored to find the safest approach for people gravely ill with pancreatic cancer, because these patients are likely to already have weak immune systems.

The boost was the same investigational vaccine used in the earlier VAX003 trial.

The latest vaccine experiments aim to build on the modest success of a trial in Thailand in 2009, when an earlier vaccine showed a 31 percent reduction in infections.

The vaccine that has been tested in the United States was made from a cold - causing chimpanzee adenovirus that had been engineered to express proteins from two species of the Ebola virus, known as Zaire and Sudan (after their origins), and that was already available when the trial began in early September.

An earlier form of the vaccine was used in the DarDar Trial, a seven - year study in Tanzania sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health involving patients with HIV infection who at birth had received BCG, the current tuberculosis vaccine.

Phase I trial - an early clinical trial designed to study an experimental vaccine in humans.

A major theme is translational research involving the rapid early - stage development and assessment of new vaccines in clinical trials.

In the RV144 vaccine trial, led by the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the efficacy at 3.5 - years was 31.2 %; however, a higher early effect (60 %) was seen at 12 months.

Burk is doing well, Kopetz says, but it's too early to report overall results for the seven patients who had customized vaccines developed initially and have since proceeded to the combination trial.

A malaria vaccine has shown promising results in early stage clinical trials, a study suggests.

Building on the findings of an earlier study that found for the first time, albeit modestly, that a vaccine could prevent HIV infection in 2016, an NIH - supported clinical trial was launched to test a modified HIV vaccine.

Because of the early stage of the trials, more work is needed to see «if the vaccines are better than existing treatments, if they improve survival, and what their long - term side effects could be.»

WCBS 880 AM — A «Promising Lead» in Fight Against Pancreatic Cancer - April 4, 2012 Early results from a clinical trial at CINJ show stable disease in pancreatic cancer for certain candidates following vaccine treatment.

NJTV - New Pancreatic Study May Offer Hope for the Future - November 17, 2011 CINJ Deputy Director Dr. Edmund Lattime and Co-Director of CINJ's Gastrointestinal - Hepatobiliary Oncology Program Dr. Elizabeth Poplin discuss early results to a unique clinical trial that uses vaccine therapy to target pancreatic cancer.

The department has developed and produced 15 different formulations for early clinical trials (e.g. vaccine antigens produced by heterologous expression) and has conducted more than 20 clinical trials as sponsor.

A breast cancer vaccine developed at the School of Medicine is safe in patients with metastatic breast cancer, results of an early clinical trial indicate.

Most recently, CRI has launched a new «venture philanthropy» program called the Cancer Vaccine Acceleration Fund (CVAF) as a means to catalyze development of next - generation therapeutic cancer vaccines and other immunotherapies by helping to address the critical shortage of capital available for early stage clinical trials.

A good knowledge of correlates of protection could predict the efficacy of novel vaccines at early stages of development and help identify the most promising candidates for vaccine trials.

At the International AIDS Society conference in Paris, scientists announced that in an early - stage clinical trial, a new HIV vaccine regimen generated antibody responses in 100 percent of volunteers in most arms of the study.

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.