Sentences with phrase «effective vaccine design»

The primary focus will be to work as a member of the team responsible for delineating the immune response against nairoviruses to aid effective vaccine design.

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These findings improve understanding of the mechanisms that make flu outbreaks so difficult to prevent, and inform efforts to design more effective flu vaccines that are less easily thwarted by continual mutation.

But researchers have had only a blurry picture of gp120's structure — not enough to design well - targeted drugs or mount an effective vaccine strategy.

Equipped with this deeper understanding, researchers are trying to make allergy vaccines safer and more effective by designing them to micromanage the allergic immune response.

Researchers working on cancer vaccines may need to take account of these interactions in designing their treatments if they are ever to prove effective.

Learning more about the new strains could help public health officials to determine which drugs might be effective and to design new vaccines for the next flu season, which will likely include strains that are now circulating.

Kang's primary research focuses on designing and developing effective vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus and RSV, but he partnered with a university and research institutes in South Korea that wanted international collaborative projects to study if ginseng can be used to improve health and protect against disease because of the potential benefit in fighting these viruses.

«We learned in this study that grabbing hold of these glycans can be a very important early step in an effective immune response to HIV, and with this knowledge, we believe we can design better candidate vaccines,» said principal investigator Dennis R. Burton, professor of immunology and microbiology at TSRI.

However, bnAbs are found in only a minority of infected people, in quantities too small to clear the virus, so Burton and other researchers are now trying to design vaccines to elicit these bnAbs in numbers large enough to provide effective protection.

Understanding how to elicit memory B cells, along with plasmablasts, is critical for designing effective vaccines.

This kind of research — figuring out which of the many HIV strains are affecting local people and how they are transmitted — is essential for designing an effective vaccine.

Dr Gambhir said the team looked at whether a randomized control trial (RCT)-- where all people in the population have the same chance of being selected; or a stepped - wedge cluster trial design — which would give vaccine to healthcare workers and eventually treat all of them — is most safe and effective in evaluating a vaccine.

While studying a group of women at risk of HIV in Mombasa, Kenya, Dr. Julie Overbaugh and colleagues found a potential vulnerability in the AIDS virus that could lead to clues for designing an effective vaccine.

To address this growing problem, NIAID is funding and conducting research on many aspects of antimicrobial (drug) resistance, including basic research on how microbes develop resistance, development of new and faster diagnostics, and clinical trials designed to find new vaccines and treatments effective against drug - resistant microbes.

Hundreds of HIV vaccine scientists attending the 2011 Aids Vaccine conference in Bangkok, Thailand have said the stage is now set to design a safe and effective vvaccine scientists attending the 2011 Aids Vaccine conference in Bangkok, Thailand have said the stage is now set to design a safe and effective vVaccine conference in Bangkok, Thailand have said the stage is now set to design a safe and effective vaccinevaccine.

Immune Design is a new generation vaccine company built on emerging understanding of the role of dendritic cells in determining an effective immune response.

We exploit these findings to design a chemically synthesized peptide corresponding to RH5Nt, which could contribute to a cost - effective malaria vaccine.

The vaccine, designed for testing in Thailand where clade B and recombinant E / A HIV predominates, was found 31 % effective in preventing HIV infection among Thai volunteers.