Picking
vaccine candidates from the entire repertoire of genes for an organism «will probably be the only approach used to find vaccines in the future, because the technique is so powerful and so fast,» says Rappuoli.
Nanotheraputics for Antibiotic Resistent Emerging Bacterial pathogens (NAREB) European Research Infrastructures for Poverty Related Diseases (EURIPED) Biomarkers for enhanced vaccines immunosafety (BioVacSafe) European network of vaccine research and development TRANSVAC Advancing novel and promising TB
vaccine candidates from discovery to preclinical and early clinical development (TBVAC2020)
Not exact matches
And by winter several more
vaccine candidates that employ various forms of the virus are slated for human testing, supported by funds
from the NIH.
«It was not known whether any of these
vaccines could provide protection against the new outbreak West African Makona strain of Ebola Zaire currently circulating in Guinea,» said John Eldridge, Chief Scientific Officer - Vaccines at Profectus Biosciences, Inc. «Our findings show that our candidate vaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virus
vaccines could provide protection against the new outbreak West African Makona strain of Ebola Zaire currently circulating in Guinea,» said John Eldridge, Chief Scientific Officer -
Vaccines at Profectus Biosciences, Inc. «Our findings show that our candidate vaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virus
Vaccines at Profectus Biosciences, Inc. «Our findings show that our
candidate vaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virus
vaccines provided complete, single dose protection
from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virus.»
Gary Nabel, a molecular virologist with the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, and Anthony Sanchez, a virologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, created their
candidate vaccine from snippets of the Ebola virus's DNA.
The rVSV - ZEBOV
vaccine candidate was initially engineered by scientists
from the Public Health Agency of Canada and was licensed to a subsidiary of NewLink Genetics Corporation.
The new
candidate vaccine contains mRNAs encoding two key proteins
from a Zika virus strain isolated in a 2013 outbreak.
A single immunization with the
vaccine candidate produced strong immune responses and prevented the virus
from infecting mice at all.
«New Zika
vaccine candidate protects mice and monkeys with a single dose: Results
from study highlight the promise of mRNA - based
vaccines and therapies.»
«[T] he visit also comes as the White House awaits action
from Congress on a nearly $ 6.2 billion emergency appropriations request to continue fighting [Ebola] in West Africa and to move
candidate vaccines through clinical trials.
The data obtained
from this study provide a basis for more rapid, cost - effective clinical trials to evaluate new influenza drugs or to determine the efficacy of
candidate vaccines for both seasonal and pandemic influenza.
«The findings
from this trial are very encouraging to those of us who have spent many years working on
vaccine candidates to protect against dengue, a disease that is a significant burden in much of the world and is now endemic in Puerto Rico,» said Stephen Whitehead, Ph.D., of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
The
candidate vaccine is made
from a mixture of four live, weakened (attenuated) viruses targeted to each of the four serotypes.
Vaccine research will also benefit immediately from the discovery, since scientists can already now test the effectiveness of different vaccine candidates at preventing PfEMP1 from bindin
Vaccine research will also benefit immediately
from the discovery, since scientists can already now test the effectiveness of different
vaccine candidates at preventing PfEMP1 from bindin
vaccine candidates at preventing PfEMP1
from binding ECPR.
The Dartmouth
candidate, DAR - 901, is an inactivated
vaccine made
from a non-pathogenic bacterium that is genetically related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of human tuberculosis.
The protein fragment of the
vaccine candidate comes
from gp120, a protein that covers HIV like a protective envelope.
Injecting rabbits with a
vaccine candidate that contained the protein fragment without the sugar group resulted in antibodies that primarily bound to gp120
from only one HIV strain.
In clinical trials, several
candidate H7N9 pandemic influenza
vaccines made
from inactivated viruses have been shown to be safe and to generate an immune response.
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Vaccine candidates developed
from DNA and proteins of the MERS virus (above, yellow) produced protective immune proteins and reduced lung damage in monkeys six days after infection.
«Our findings support PfSEA - 1 as a potential
vaccine candidate, and we are confident that by partnering with our colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and other researchers focused on
vaccines to prevent the parasites
from entering red blood cells, we can approach the parasite
from all angles, which could help us develop a truly effective
vaccine to prevent this infectious disease that kills millions of children every year.»
Metabolomic profiling of
vaccine candidates by SB measurement (LU): LU will analyse metabolic pathways based on samples
from the above tasks and will extend the analyses to other project samples as well.
This service will allow users to improve the compatibility and stability of their
vaccine antigen with different mucosal adjuvants (
from the HZI portfolio) and to define the optimal production methods to generate immunogenic
vaccine candidates with optimised physicochemical stability (in vitro studies).
Currently IDOBRU imports 66 Brucella
vaccines from the
Vaccine Ontology (VO; http://www.violinet.org/vaccineontology [21], including four licensed animal Brucella vaccines and 62 Brucella vaccine candidates that have been proven effective in laboratory animal model
Vaccine Ontology (VO; http://www.violinet.org/vaccineontology [21], including four licensed animal Brucella
vaccines and 62 Brucella
vaccine candidates that have been proven effective in laboratory animal model
vaccine candidates that have been proven effective in laboratory animal models [33].
Presentations will include new data
from Aeras's advancing portfolio of TB
vaccines, including data
from four clinical - stage
candidates.
Results
from the sporozoite stage
vaccine look promising, the blood - stage
candidate showed to be safe but will require further development, the transmission blocking
candidate showed to be safe and immunogenic and the pre-erythrocytic
candidate showed efficacy in UK adults.
Dr. Leo Stamatatos, an immunologist in Fred Hutch's
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to begin manufacturing an HIV vaccine candidate designed to stimulate the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies and to test the experimental vaccine in human clinical
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, has received funding
from the National Institutes of Health to begin manufacturing an HIV
vaccine candidate designed to stimulate the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies and to test the experimental vaccine in human clinical
vaccine candidate designed to stimulate the production of broadly neutralizing antibodies and to test the experimental
vaccine in human clinical
vaccine in human clinical trials.
In addition to finding
vaccine candidates, «the most striking feature of N. meningitidis
from a genome perspective is that there are more contingency genes than any other bacterium or organism studied so far,» says Hervé Tettelin, leader of the N. meningitidis sequencing project at TIGR.
His work centers on new immunomodulatory agents and formulations, as well as the process development necessary to take
vaccines and therapeutic
candidates from the lab to the clinic.
Results
from the first Ebola
vaccine clinical trial conducted in Africa (in 2009 - 2010) reveal a
vaccine candidate produces the same immune response seen in the United States in an African setting.
As part of this upcoming study, some Ugandan volunteers
from the 2009 DNA study will receive a boost, or additional injection, with the new
vaccine candidate to explore a more long lasting effect of vaccination.
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.
Results
from an initial study combining a microbicide
candidate and experimental
vaccine are promising enough to at least keep Imperial College virologist Robin Shattock coming back for more in pursuing what could be a novel move in preventing HIV infection.
Jeff Currier presented data
from a Phase I study of a
vaccine candidate that was developed by MHRP.
Under the terms of the sale of its assets and rights relating to its anthrax
vaccine product
candidate and related technology to Emergent BioSolutions Inc, (Emergent), Emergent may be obligated to pay VXGN up to an additional $ 7M in milestone payments, plus specified percentages of future net sales for 12.5 years beginning
from the first commercial sale.
«Most
vaccine candidates for malaria have worked by trying to prevent parasites
from entering red blood cells,» said Dr Jonathan Kurtis of Rhode Island Hospital, the team's spokesman.