Sentences with phrase «fund vaccine trials»

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The so - called STEP trial, sponsored by pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. and the federally funded HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), was the first to test the idea of stimulating the immune system's killer T cells to hunt for the virus more aggressively, in this case using a weakened form of the cold virus to carry three genes from HIV.

NicVAX, an antismoking vaccine that recently received $ 10 million in funding from NIDA, is in large clinical trials under the auspices of its maker, Nabi Biopharmaceuticals.

The trial is sponsored by Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (Japan) and results of vaccine efficacy will be available in late 2018.

Druilhe says planned trials of the MSP3 vaccine with adult volunteers in Burkina Faso have been delayed by red tape and slow funding, but he hopes to begin them sometime next year.

The largest corporate - funded medical trials in history indicate that two new vaccines against rotavirus, a leading cause of childhood mortality worldwide, are both effective and safe.

After all the work of planning, funding and getting approval for a vaccine trial in humans, «you're talking at least about three years in a best - case scenario, if you have a very promising product,» said Matthew Laurens, an associate professor of pediatrics and medicine at the University of Maryland who was not associated with the study.

The trials will be conducted by the publicly funded, Hutch - based HIV Vaccine Trials Network, or HVTN, the largest global network striving to develop vaccines to prevent HIV /trials will be conducted by the publicly funded, Hutch - based HIV Vaccine Trials Network, or HVTN, the largest global network striving to develop vaccines to prevent HIV /Trials Network, or HVTN, the largest global network striving to develop vaccines to prevent HIV / AIDS.

Dr. Leo Stamatatos, an immunologist in Fred Hutch's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to begin manufacturing an HIV vaccine candidate designed to stimulate the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies and to test the experimental vaccine in human clinical Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to begin manufacturing an HIV vaccine candidate designed to stimulate the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies and to test the experimental vaccine in human clinical vaccine candidate designed to stimulate the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies and to test the experimental vaccine in human clinical vaccine in human clinical trials.

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.

This clinical trial is a collaboration between WRAIR and Crucell Holland B.V., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, with funding from the Joint Vaccines Acquisition Program at the Department of Defense's Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.

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.

As Head of Project Leader Unit, Nicolas is in charge of the pharmaceutical development and subsequent production of vaccines - for use in clinical trials - directly funded by the European Vaccine Initiative (EVI), and European projects funded from other sources coordinated by EVI.

Trials reportedly began in Colombia South America last year for an Alzheimer's vaccine, using American tax dollars to fund the research.

Avigan and his colleagues have secured funding to perform a larger clinical trial for their leukemia vaccine, and also are conducting a trial for a vaccine against multiple myeloma, another blood cancer.