Sentences with phrase «increase vaccine efficacy»

Sanjay Gurunathan from Sanofi Pasteur, manufacturer of one of the vaccines used in RV144, said a new partnership of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, HIV Vaccine Trials Network, US Military HIV Research Program (MHRP), and Sanofi Pasteur — known as the Pox Protein Public Private Partnership, or P5 — will aim to increase vaccine efficacy from the 31.2 percent of the RV144 trial to 50 percent.

Recently, monkey studies testing vaccine regimens different from those in RV144 have supported the notion that enhancing protective antibody activity may increase vaccine efficacy.

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One application of sieve analysis, once it's learned that a vaccine's efficacy depends on the genetics of the pathogen, is for the vaccine manufacturer to add a different strain or strains to the vaccine to increase its protectiveness.