Sentences with phrase «vaccine approach»

The second focus on my research is the development of novel therapeutic vaccine approaches for cancer.
One new vaccine approach prompts the body to make antibodies to the more stable stem.
They will also work with Vir Biotechnology, Inc. of San Francisco, which has licensed aspects of their CMV - based vaccine approach, to expand testing with plans to start a human clinical trial in 2020.
The HVTN maintains a vigorous program to facilitate the development of novel vaccine approaches.
Many vaccine approaches have shown promise in being able to protect nonhuman primates against Ebola Zaire.
The mRNA vaccine approach has other advantages, Weissman added: «If a vaccine is effective after just a single immunization, the infrastructure needed for its administration can be much simpler.
One cancer vaccine approach gaining traction relies heavily on neoantigens — mutations that develop de novo in rapidly - dividing tumor cells.
«This broad implication is in contrast to a more traditional vaccine - based approach, which requires a specialist to surgically remove tumor samples from a patient's body then create a personalized vaccine approach for one specific patient.»
Concepts of how to apply vaccines as part of cancer treatment or as prevention of recurrence, are moving vaccines from being considered a secondary player in cancer clinical management to vaccine approaches gravitating towards becoming a central plank in the newest area of cancer therapy research.
He has made several important contributions in this area including identifying a new strain of CHIKV virus, identification of host cellular targets of HIV accessory genes, new novel DNA vaccine approaches for HIV, CHIKV, RSV, Dengue, MERS and Zika among others.
Steven Russell, M.D., Ph.D., of the Mayo Clinic, and John Bell, Ph.D., of the University of Ottawa in Canada, each presented talks on how oncolytic viruses could be combined with vaccine approaches to produce more powerful results than vaccines alone.
Zoetis continues work with Iowa State University on a second vaccine approach to help control PEDv.
The novel vaccine approach also may have applications beyond rabies, particularly in developing a vaccine against white - nose syndrome, a disease that is decimating bat colonies around the country.
The company's vaccine approach in both cases is to use viruslike particles (VLPs) containing surface proteins that make the VLPs resemble a virus, thereby eliciting the proper immune response — even though the VLPs lack the genes needed to replicate themselves.
In the current study, Dr. Mason will optimize her cell - based vaccine approach to induce functional, long lasting tumor - specific immune responses that will prevent relapse and prolong survival in dogs with NHL.
«This particular vaccine approach didn't work, but there are lots of different vaccine approaches in testing that produce different immune responses,» Buchbinder says.
Three vaccine approaches have been shown to protect monkeys against Zika infection, and human trials began in July.
These improvements should make the vaccine approach more effective, he says.
Some researchers remain skeptical of the vaccine approach because it doesn't treat the underlying physiology of addiction.
Federoff believes that this vaccine approach might work to treat people who contract variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (vCJD), a currently incurable human form of prion disease, related to mad cow disease (BSE).
In fact, the speed and potency of cocaine's assault on the body could pose a major challenge to the vaccine approach.
«We consider our vaccine approach as promising for further development,» said Professor Schnierle in her explanation of the research results.
Scientists have debated the mechanism of action of captagon, and Janda's vaccine approach has been useful in dissecting how the components of the drug exert their psychoactive effects.
Many of the current cancer researchers are investigating ways of stimulating the immune system to recognize the cancer cells specifically and selectively, for example by a vaccine approach (See also «Gene Therapy» below).
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