Sentences with phrase «promising vaccine trials»

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Fiers discovered a key protein on the influenza virus that could serve as a target for a universal vaccine; the drug has shown promise in an early clinical trial.

The recent phase 2 STEP trial of the HIV vaccine (V520) showed disappointing results, but another vaccine made by GeoVax will be moving into phase 2 clinical trials in the next few months based on promising phase 1 results.

To be sure, scientists have zeroed in on some promising vaccine - adjuvant combinations, and a few well - designed trials are now under way.

A malaria vaccine, made by GlaxoSmithKline, is in clinical trials, and a 2011 paper reported promising results, showing that it seemed to protect about half of the kids who received it.

«However, the promising results of this trial lay the foundations for the development of a more cost - effective, clinically - practical vaccine technology that could deliver similar outcomes for patients.

«World's most advanced dengue vaccine candidate shows promise in phase 3 trial.»

A new type of cancer vaccine has yielded promising results in an initial clinical trial conducted at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

«Personalized tumor vaccine shows promise in pilot trial: Vaccine against patients» own tumors triggers a broad response, and induced five - year remission in one patient with advanced ovarian cancer.vaccine shows promise in pilot trial: Vaccine against patients» own tumors triggers a broad response, and induced five - year remission in one patient with advanced ovarian cancer.Vaccine against patients» own tumors triggers a broad response, and induced five - year remission in one patient with advanced ovarian cancer.»

«Many adenovirus vaccine trials are moving forward for HIV, malaria and TB with promising results and very few residual safety concerns,» he said.

«We observed rapid and durable protective immunity without adverse events, and so we think this candidate vaccine represents a promising strategy for the global fight against Zika virus,» said senior author Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, a professor of Infectious Disease at Penn. «We hope to start clinical trials in 12 to 18 months.»

«Vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus shows promise in early trial: Researchers describe a new approach to developing RSV vaccines, reporting promising early results in young children.»

Candidate Zika vaccines, which have shown early promise, should be in clinical trials next year.

Several drugs and vaccines have shown promise in nonhuman primates, but none of them have successfully made it through phase I human trials.

Scientists have many promising malaria vaccine candidates in the works, and for the first time one has reached advanced human trials.

Vaccine trials started last week, and initial observations are promising, but Donnelly and her team warn that it will take many months to scale up production sufficiently to start having an effect on the current epidemic.

«Prime - boost H7N9 influenza vaccine concept promising in clinical trial.»

Activists often slam large pharmaceutical companies for failing to develop drugs that are of critical importance to the developing world.Andrew Witty, GlaxoSmithKline's youthful chief executive, gave those critics pause yesterday in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.Witty promised to sell the company's malaria vaccine that is in late - stage clinical trials in Africa for no more than a 5 percent profit.

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.

Clinical trials for several vaccines are in various phases, with promising published results in humans.

With enthusiasm for cancer immunotherapy mounting thanks to recent successes in the clinic with immune - based cancer treatments such as anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 antibodies, and the FDA approvals of sipuleucel - T prostate cancer vaccine and ipilimumab for the treatment of melanoma, and in light of the many promising immunotherapies now in clinical trials with potential for near - term FDA approval, the Cancer Research Institute launched the first annual Cancer Immunotherapy Awareness Month in June 2013 as a way to increase public awareness of the power of immunotherapy to revolutionize cancer treatment and of the need for continued public support for research to bring these treatments to more patients sooner.

About 15 years ago, he led trials at pharmaceutical giant Merck on an especially promising vaccine — «the best hope we had,» Kim recalled — that ultimately failed.

A malaria vaccine has shown promising results in early stage clinical trials, a study suggests.

Professor Ruth Karron answers a few questions about why findings from a new vaccine trial she led are so promising.

PD01A: Promising Animal Efficacy; Initial Human Safety and Hints of Disease Modification At the time of our last post on α - synuclein vaccines, AFFiRiS had published several papers about the AFFITOME immnotherapy discovery platform [8 - 11] and had even begun their first Phase I trial of PD01A, but had kept nearly silent on many of the most elementary aspects of the vaccine.

WCBS 880 AM — A «Promising Lead» in Fight Against Pancreatic Cancer - April 4, 2012 Early results from a clinical trial at CINJ show stable disease in pancreatic cancer for certain candidates following vaccine treatment.

«This study allowed us to evaluate the protective efficacy of several prime - boost vaccine combinations, and these data will help guide the advancement of the most promising candidates into clinical trials,» noted lead author Dr. Dan Barouch of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard.

All eyes are on a new BCG - based TB vaccine, VPM1002, which has shown promise in animal and small - scale human trials.

A good knowledge of correlates of protection could predict the efficacy of novel vaccines at early stages of development and help identify the most promising candidates for vaccine trials.

Four other trials in humans are launching in the upcoming months, and the vaccine has already shown promising results in animals.

The second phase of clinical trials for a new vaccine is complete and the results are very promising.

That's why I'm so happy to report the news that an anti-malaria vaccine known as RTS, S (aka Mosquirix) is in the final stage of clinical trial and shows great promise.