People have attempted to make vaccines for group B N. meningitidis over the years, but it has been literally impossible, according to Rino Rappuoli, Vice
President of Vaccine Research for the Chiron Corporation, and an author on both Science papers.
«When viruses are unavailable for work in the lab, that is really a downside,» says Larry Smith, vice
president of vaccine research at Vical Inc. in San Diego.
Not exact matches
The
vaccine could even be described as «holistic,» according to Fred Ramsdell, vice
president of research at the nonprofit Parker Institute.
Dr. Larry Corey, Principal Investigator, HIV
Vaccine Trials Network; Past
President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center Dr. Diane Havlir, Professor
of Medicine, University
of California, San Francisco Moderator: Siobhan O'Connor, Time Magazine
«Understanding the host response will be a critical area in
vaccine research,» says George Kemble, vice
president of research and development for MedImmune
Vaccines, recently purchased by AstraZeneca.
One
of the Lyon - based investors is
vaccine manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur, whose
president, Jacques Berger, sees many benefits to the changes: «There's no rivalry between those who want to work in state - funded
research and those who want to work in the private sector,» he says.
Ingo Potrykus at the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology is engineering a novel strain
of rice fortified with extra iron and vitamin A. Charles Arntzen,
president of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant
Research at Cornell University, is working on perhaps the most ambitious genetically engineered food
of all: an edible
vaccine.
«It's not something that will be a panacea for all [cocaine] addicts,» says John Shields, senior vice
president of research at Cantab Pharmaceuticals, a British company that recently bought ImmuLogic's
vaccine program.
«This
research team's dedication and previous
research on dengue and other arboviruses enabled them to quickly develop this model for Zika virus, an important first step to enable testing
of candidate
vaccine and therapeutics,» said Stephen Higgs, PhD, the
president of the American Society
of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
President Barack Obama gave a talk at the NIH Clinical Center and then toured the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Vaccine Research Center.
«This is an important demonstration
of the possibilities opened up for immunotherapy by DMAb technology to direct in vivo production
of antibodies
of major relevance to human cancer,» said David B. Weiner, Ph.D., executive vice
president of The Wistar Institute, director
of The Wistar Institute
Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Professor in Cancer
Research, and senior author
of the study.
«We have learned in that period
of time how formidable an adversary HIV is,» says immunologist Wayne Koff, senior vice
president for
research and development at the International AIDS
Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).
Says Parker Institute Vice
President for
Research Fred Ramsdell: «At the end, we'll have a good idea
of how to correctly pick neoantigens for a
vaccine.»
Recently, industry leaders have expressed a desire to help, and in January,
President Clinton announced his Millennium
Vaccine Initiative, in which he proposed a series of measures to stimulate vaccine re
Vaccine Initiative, in which he proposed a series
of measures to stimulate
vaccine re
vaccine research.
«We have dozens
of studies examining autism and
vaccines, and they don't show a link,» says Alison Singer,
president of the Autism Science Foundation, a nonprofit that supports autism
research.
David B. Weiner, Ph.D., executive vice
president, director
of the
Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, and the W.W. Smith Endowed Chair in Cancer
Research at The Wistar Institute, and peers received the 2018 Top Ten Clinical
Research Achievement Award last night at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
In 2005, Dan co-founded and served as
President and CEO
of Inviragen Inc., which he transformed from a virtual start - up to a global clinical stage company with sites in Colorado, Wisconsin and Singapore and translated two
vaccines from the
research bench to human clinical trials, including one for dengue fever.
Weiner joined The Wistar Institute as the Executive Vice
President, Director
of the
Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, and W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Professor in Cancer
Research in 2016.
At the Bangkok AIDS conference held in July
of this year, Seth Berkley, IAVI's
president, argued that «only a
vaccine can end the epidemic,» that «a
vaccine is achievable,» and that spending on
vaccine research must double to $ 1.3 billion annually in order to find it.
«As I begin my service as ISV
President, it is important to keep in mind that our overarching goals and focus remain the same: serve all
of our members and continue to build the society and «lift all boats» in
vaccine research around the globe,» Weiner said.
The Wistar Institute was awarded a $ 1,494,972 grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance a DNA - based
vaccine candidate for protection against malarial infection utilizing a synthetic DNA platform created in the lab of David B. Weiner, Ph.D., executive vice president, director of the Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center at The Wistar Institute and the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Professor in Cancer Re
vaccine candidate for protection against malarial infection utilizing a synthetic DNA platform created in the lab
of David B. Weiner, Ph.D., executive vice
president, director
of the
Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center at The Wistar Institute and the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Professor in Cancer Re
Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center at The Wistar Institute and the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Professor in Cancer
Research.
Between a
research - gutting proposed budget, regulation - slashing executive orders, the appointment
of climate change skeptics to head the Environmental Protection Agency and Department
of Energy, and bogus claims about
vaccines, infectious diseases, and global warming, it's no secret that
President Donald Trump has demonstrated indifference to empirical fact and hostility to the scientific community.