Sentences with phrase «therapeutic vaccine trials»
Of more than 50 therapeutic vaccine trials so far, this is the first one that has bolstered the immune system in a «meaningful» way, says Steven Deeks, an HIV / AIDS clinician and researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who is «cautiously optimistic» that the data will inspire others to study the approach.
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SAN FRANCISCO — A therapeutic vaccine against severe rotaviral diarrhea, which kills nearly 900,000 infants worldwide each year, has succeeded in clinical trials.
A 2010 survey by the market analysis firm BCC Research identified 113 therapeutic vaccines in development, many already in human trials.
The Johns Hopkins scientists who conducted the trial said the finding is significant because measuring immune system responses directly in the lesions may be a more accurate way to evaluate so - called «therapeutic» vaccines than by the conventional means of blood analysis.
A new therapeutic vaccine, GTL001, developed by Genticel to clear HPV strains 16 and 18 — the types most likely to cause cancer — is being evaluated for safety in a Phase I clinical trial at the University of Louisville.
The trial was part of the Cancer Vaccine Collaborative, a joint program between the Cancer Research Institute and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research to develop therapeutic cancer vaccines.
MHRP's international research program has six clinical research sites in the U.S., Africa and Asia, where it conducts HIV cohort studies, HIV vaccine trials and therapeutic studies.
In addition to preventive vaccines, such as Gardasil and Cervarix, laboratory research and several human clinical trials are focused on the development of therapeutic HPV vaccines.
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.
«We have made many prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for use in human clinical trials.»
«Based on the clinical evidence we've gathered over the past decade in our cancer vaccine trials,» Old said, «and in light of data from a variety of trials by others within the field, we believe therapeutic cancer vaccines will increasingly emerge as one of the safest and most powerful ways to combat a variety of cancers.»