Sentences with phrase «of vaccine researchers»

Weiner has also been appointed President of the International Society for Vaccines (ISV), an organization that engages and supports the professional goals of a diverse membership of vaccine researchers from academia, industry, governmental and non-governmental institutions, and foundations.

Not exact matches

The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced yesterday that it was presenting its prestigious 2017 Lasker - DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award to a pair of National Cancer Institute researchers, Douglas Lowy and John Schiller, who created a vaccine to prevent human papilloma virus, or HPV, from taking hold in the body.

In 2015, researchers at the University of Washington's Cancer Vaccine Institute published a study on designing vaccines to prevent breast cancer.

«If they could figure out a way to streamline, it would be a lot better,» said Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who leads a team of researchers developing a vaccine that would prevent fentanyl overdoses by keeping the drug from reaching the brain.

Researchers at the University of Michigan's Mary H Weiser Food Allergy Center have developed a nasal vaccine that protects laboratory mice from allergic reactions upon exposure to peanuts, after just three monthly doses.

Researchers at the University of Michigan's Mary H Weiser Food Allergy Center have developed a nasal vaccine that protects laboratory mice from allergic reactions upon exposure to peanuts, after just...

Researchers also have found medication like Paracetamol can reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine.

There was no association between pregnant mothers who received the influenza or tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccines and the risk of infant death or hospitalization, researchers found.

No one knows why allergy numbers are rising, but some researchers theorize that the rise of antibiotics, sanitation and vaccines has caused our immune systems to attack harmless proteins in our foods.

Researchers at the University of Southern California have developed a prostate cancer vaccine that prevented cancer in 90 percent of young mice genetically predestined to develop the disease.

To answer parents» questions about their children's vaccines, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers a collection of interviews with pediatricians, researchers, advocates and other parents.

The researchers are currently planning a follow - up study which will test whether a flu vaccine is more effective for the elderly when combined with brief use of Losmapimod.

Together with researchers at the CNRS, the group has demonstrated the efficacy of RNA - based vaccines produced using the new method against plant virus infections.

But several researchers have warned that the vaccine could trigger antibodies in a naïve subject that enhance the ability of a second infection to cause severe disease, including a deadly hemorrhagic fever.

There may also be other applications from this work, they say: Researchers could similarly take other viruses apart in the lab, scour them for important mutations and create vaccines against a plethora of other infections.

The stocks are helping the development of new countermeasures such as drugs, vaccines and diagnostics in case smallpox should reappear, and may also allow researchers to explore the impact of smallpox on the human immune system, providing insights into other diseases such as AIDS.

As researchers learn more about genetic profile of various cancers, other work is charging ahead to deliver personalized vaccines targeted to a patient's own tumor cells

Texas researchers are planning to use a combination of tobacco plants and podlike laboratories to speed the production of new vaccines

A few years ago, the researchers surveyed a random sampling of parents about their attitudes toward vaccines and then showed the participants one of four kinds of information: written material from the CDC explaining the lack of evidence that the MMR vaccine causes autism; written material about the dangers of the diseases prevented by the MMR vaccine; images of children who have the diseases prevented by the MMR vaccine; or a dramatic narrative about an infant who almost died of measles.

The discovery might offer a way to enhance the effectiveness of such a vaccine, the researchers noted.

In the world of vaccine development, 3 1/2 months from design to injection is «warp speed,» says vaccine researcher Nelson Michael of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Md..

The hunt for a universal flu vaccine, a single shot that would provide lifelong immunity, has been going on for decades, and many teams of researchers have been on the case.

In the new study, researchers at the NIAID used a virus - like particle vaccine cocktail that expressed a handful of different subtypes of a key surface protein of the influenza virus: hemagglutinin H1, H3, H5 and H7.

Researchers administered flu vaccine to 141 pregnant women, 91 of whom received a flu shot in the previous year, 50 who had not.

In a preliminary study published in the April Journal of the American Medical Association, the researchers found that the vaccine produced by this method protects against the two strains to which the subjects were exposed and most likely protects against the third.

This technology could help researchers rapidly generate new peptide drugs to test on a variety of diseases, and it also raises the possibility of easily producing customized cancer vaccines for individual patients.

Initially about one third of the 1,661 study participants received placebo, however the placebo group also received the vaccine 30 months into the study so those individuals were followed a shorter period of time, the researchers note.

«Although HPV vaccine has been around for more than a decade, the uptake of the vaccine has been less than ideal in many places, including in high - resource countries such as the United States,» said Silvina Arrossi, PhD, co-chair of the Expert Panel that developed the guideline and an official and researcher at the Instituto Nacional del Cancer in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

A group of researchers from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found that DNA vaccines can have the perverse effect of «tolerizing» the immune system, perhaps weakening any future response to the real pathogen.

«Funders don't control the composition of the committee, and they don't meet with the committee,» says Harvard public - health researcher Marie McCormick, who chaired the IOM vaccine - safety committee in question.

If researchers could induce antibodies with long HCDR3s in humans, «then that could be the basis of getting a vaccine to work,» Smider says.

Examining the digestive tracts of 12 children with behavioral disorders, nine of them autistic, the researchers found intestinal inflammation, which they pinned on the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine.

As part of their study, the researchers collected tweets that mentioned measles - mumps - rubella vaccine and classified their sentiment using artificial intelligence computer programs.

Studies that compare flu alterations in multiple people won't immediately tell researchers how to design vaccines, she says, but could point to parts of the virus for further investigation.

Researchers show that this much vaccine will reduce the number of cases in the second wave by less than 6 per cent — but that is still enough to save 2000 lives.

Half a decade after the original thimerosal concerns were first raised, Kennedy claimed to have found the smoking gun: the transcript of a «secret» 2000 meeting of government, pharmaceutical, and independent researchers with expertise in vaccines.

Roughly a year after Brazilian doctors and researchers first suspected a link between a spate of alarming birth defects and the Zika virus, a cadre of potential vaccines are now headed for testing in humans.

Researchers have tested a preliminary form of a vaccine against the disease, which is spread by the bite of the mosquito and kills more than 600,000 people each year.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, lead researcher on the other study, adds that the meeting allowed him and Fouchier to explain their work, including the potential benefits for surveillance of emerging flu strains (Nature 481, 417 - 418; 2012) and for vaccine preparation (Nature 482, 142 - 143; 2012).

The researchers said it was important to test their candidate vaccines on the Makona strain to ensure that even small differences between the strains didn't impact the effectiveness of the vaccine.

TenOever is already taking advice from researchers in the vaccine industry about the limitations of current products, such as FluMist, so that he can learn how to improve them.

Remarkably, the researchers also found that blocking this protein in mice protected them from the lethal effects of dengue virus infection, an important finding given that an effective vaccine against dengue has remained elusive, partly because there are four serotypes of the virus that cause disease.

The researchers administered either a tetanus or diphtheria version of the vaccine or a placebo in combination with standard rounds of vaccinations to a group of 75 infants in both Israel and Finland.

In September, researchers at multiple U.S. sites began human trials of a potential H7N9 vaccine.

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...

In collaboration with many researchers (graduate students, postdocs, and faculty elsewhere), we have examined the role of cross-immunity on the evolution and dynamics of influenza; the impact of behavioral changes, long periods of infectiousness, variable infectivity, co-infections, prostitution, social networks, and vaccine efficacy on HIV dynamics; the role of exogenous re-infection, variable progression rates, vaccination, public transportation, close and casual contacts on tuberculosis dynamics and control; the impact of life - history vector dynamics on dengue epidemics; and on the identification of time - response scales for epidemics of foot and mouth disease.

To minimize the chances of a vaccine - induced infection, the researchers changed one specific amino acid in the RNA polymerase (a phenylalanine) to another amino acid (a tryptophan).

The researchers, including those from Moffitt Cancer Center, published the final results of a study showing the newest vaccine is highly effective at preventing HPV infection and disease.

University of Queensland researchers have developed a world - first vaccine - style therapeutic approach to treat rheumatoid arthritis, a debilitating disease affecting more than 450,000 people in Australia.

Alarmed by «pseudoscience» that may bring «devastating» health consequences, two groups of researchers have asked the journal Scientific Reports to retract a paper that they claim undermines confidence in the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, given to girls to prevent cervical cancer.