Sentences with phrase «vaccine development as»

Wistar has an exceptional track record of success in the areas of vaccine development as well as immunotherapy.

Joseph Rosen, a professor of surgery at Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine and adjunct professor of engineering at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering, describes the new approach to vaccine development as «revolutionary,» because it could dramatically reduce the amount of time needed to respond to disease outbreak.

The company has eyed vaccine development as an area that can offer it a much - needed financial boost.

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Breastmilk acts as a baby's first vaccine, stimulates brain development, and protects a woman's health.

The stocks are helping the development of new countermeasures such as drugs, vaccines and diagnostics in case smallpox should reappear, and may also allow researchers to explore the impact of smallpox on the human immune system, providing insights into other diseases such as AIDS.

La Montagne chaired the World Health Organization Task Force on Strategic Planning for the Children's Vaccine Initiative, advised the Pan American Health Organization on programs for vaccine - research implementation, and served as a member of the board for the Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug DevelVaccine Initiative, advised the Pan American Health Organization on programs for vaccine - research implementation, and served as a member of the board for the Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Develvaccine - research implementation, and served as a member of the board for the Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development.

An internationally - recognized scientist with more than 16 years of experience in translational immunoparasitology research and vaccine development for neglected tropical diseases, Bottazzi's major interest lies in the role of vaccines as control tools integrated into international public and global health programs and initiatives.

So he joined GSK Vaccines in 2010, as a molecular biologist in the company's Antigen - Specific Cancer Immunotherapeutic program, which aims to harness the immune system for the development of well - tolerated cancer therapies.

After stepping down as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) almost a year ago, Julie Gerberding has a new gig: She will preside over vaccine development at the drug giant Merck.

The incoming AAAS Public Engagement Fellows work in such varied disciplines as virology, vaccine and pharmaceutical development, public health, demography, disease ecology, environmental health, parasitology, and human and veterinary epidemiology.

«If it does interfere with our immune response, it could become a target for vaccine development, not only for Zika virus, but possibly other viruses as well.

This makes the development of an effective vaccine to protect against infection, as well as antiviral therapy to combat already - existing infections, particularly challenging,» says Dr. Grant Hansman, a virologist who leads the CHS Research Group on Noroviruses at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and Heidelberg University.

Platform technologies enable scientists to apply a standardized manufacturing process to multiple vaccines and create a collective database on their safety as well, which can shorten the preclinical development period to as little as several months, according to the authors.

But scientific and economic obstacles have stymied the development of effective vaccines against many of the developing world's most deadly diseases, such as malaria and HIV as well as pneumococcus, the leading vaccine - preventable killer of children under the age of five.

Companies in the consortium locate postdocs at universities and offer them funding to work on industry projects in such areas as nanobiotechnology, marine biotechnology, and vaccine development.

«A universal flu vaccine based on the stalk would be more broadly protective than the ones we use now, but this information should be taken into account as we move forward with research and development.»

The cells have contributed to more than 60,000 research papers, the development of a polio vaccine in the 1950s and, most recently, an international effort to characterize the genome, known as ENCODE.

One concern is the development of multiple sclerosis, which has been fuelled by social and news media reports of cases occurring after HPV vaccination, and an increasing number of case reports published in the medical literature describing vaccine recipients who developed multiple sclerosis as well as other demyelinating diseases.

For the near term, groups known as accelerated development and introduction plans (ADIPs) have studied the possibility of more rapidly introducing new vaccines for rotavirus, a common diarrheal disease, and pneumococcus, a bacterium that causes pneumonia.

«The development of DNA - based vaccines with cytokine adjuvants has emerged as particularly promising for inducing antiviral and anti-tumor, cell - mediated immune responses.»

«Hepatitis C mutations «outrun» immune systems, lab study shows: Study identifies mutations outside of traditional vaccine targets as barrier to vaccine development.»

Traditional methods of vaccine development, such as rendering a pathogen harmless and injecting it, do not work.

In October, as senior citizens and others at high risk from flu waited in long lines for shots after half of the United States» vaccine supply for the season was lost, epidemiologists were already on high alert because of an ominous development halfway around the world.

That process faces the same development delays as in 2009, when vaccine arrived too late for most people.

It will be extremely important to identify and characterize those viruses as quickly as possible — to get a head start on the development of diagnostic assays for surveillance and drugs, or vaccines for treatment — before they have a chance to really spread.»

As far as financing, the U.K. government contends that a «multi-donor club» should pay for the vaccine development in «the medium term.&raquAs far as financing, the U.K. government contends that a «multi-donor club» should pay for the vaccine development in «the medium term.&raquas financing, the U.K. government contends that a «multi-donor club» should pay for the vaccine development in «the medium term.»

Metrics to establish the true burden of antibiotic resistance and methods also to assess the likely effect of other types of research are needed; for example, preventive research such as vaccine development will affect future burdens of bacterial infections and resistance.»

In a previous study, investigators at the Cancer Institute showed that using a vaccine treatment for bladder and breast cancer tumors in laboratory models resulted in a reversal of the traditional immune blockade, as well as the development of tumor specific immunity throughout the body.

«Taken together, these two studies suggest that the new scalable vaccine formulation is likely to prove as effective as the original formulation — which would make it the first protective TB vaccine in humans since BCG, which was introduced almost a century ago,» said Professor Ajit Lalvani, Director of the Tuberculosis Research Centre, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and a member of the DAR - 901 development team.

MedImmune, a Maryland company, created the live attenuated candidate H7N9 vaccine as part of a cooperative research and development agreement with NIAID.

«Globo H is under development as the basis for a vaccine that will teach the immune system to recognize and kill cancer cells,» he says.

GSK, which has invested more than $ 300 million in RTS, S to date, has pledged to keep the price as low as possible — just manufacturing costs plus a small return to be reinvested in development of second - generation malaria vaccines or vaccines against other neglected tropical diseases.

He said scientists are still learning how this growth factor controls healing, and ultimate development of the discovery as a healing agent or vaccine was still a number of years away.

The structure could inform vaccine development, as the Zika E glycoprotein is a key target of immune responses against the virus.

Ahead of this year's World Immunization Week — celebrated in the last week of April — we're reviewing some of the most important vaccine breakthroughs in recent history, as well as a looking to the future of vaccine development for diseases like HIV / AIDS, Zika, and Herpes.

The researchers say the results warrant further development of neoantigen vaccines, both alone and in combination with other immunotherapy weapons such as checkpoint inhibitors.

Seeking to align all major stakeholders and acting as a focal point to ensure the successful development of vaccines for diseases of poverty for low income populations.

In WP10, iBET will be involved in activities relating to GMP - directed evaluation of vaccine candidate production processes, production scale - up for vaccine candidates, definition of specifications for pilot - scale production, product stability testing and delivery for GLP toxicology studies, as well as the evaluation of development, manufacturing and finishing documentation.

Harald Zur Hausen identifies the human papillomavirus as the causative agent of cervical cancer, leading to the development of preventive vaccines for cervical cancer.

She was responsible for the development of several new vaccines currently undergoing clinical trials and also has experience as a work package leader within large international consortia.

As the single most important cause of serious lower respiratory tract disease in infants and young children in the United States and globally, RSV is of considerable public health importance and a high priority for vaccine development.

As such, in order to accelerate vaccine development, TRANSVAC undertakes significant effort to develop and validate new assays.

The symposium features presentations by Philippa Marrack and John Kappler talking on the T cell repertoire; William Paul on interleukin 4 as a prototypic immunoregulatory cytokine; Timothy Springer on lymphocyte trafficking; Pamela Bjorkman on structural studies of MHC and MHC - related proteins, and Jack Strominger on peptide presentation by class I and II MHC proteins; Thierry Boon on genes coding for tumor rejection antigens, including the first tumor antigen, MAGE - 1; and Philip Greenberg on the modification of T cells for adoptive therapy by retroviral - mediated gene insertion Since then, the symposia series has attracted leading immunologists in the cancer vaccine and antibody fields, providing them with a comprehensive view of the promises and challenges in the development of cancer immunotherapies.

Within the Joint Research Activity (JRA3) Assay development and validation, Fraunhofer will work on the development and standardization of SPR - methods required during vaccine research and development as well as production and quality control, and on the development of impurity - related assays required for product characterization.

EVI continues not only to have many successes in the clinical development of malaria vaccine candidates (its initial mandate as EMVI), but also in the coordination of projects funded by the European Commission (EC) and others.

In just the last 6 years the EID outbreaks of MERS, Ebola, Zika, CHIKV as examples have underscored the importance of rapid vaccine development and deployment capabilities to meet EID challenges, as well as growing appreciation for creativity and flexibility in clinical trial design.

In WP10, iBET will be involved in the GMP - directed evaluation of vaccine candidate production processes, production scale - up for vaccine candidates, definition of specifications for pilot - scale production, product stability testing and delivery for GLP toxicology studies, as well as the evaluation of development, manufacturing and finishing documentation.

With this comprehensive approach, TRANSVAC2 functions as a leverage and innovation catalyst between all stakeholders involved in vaccine R&D in Europe, and contributes to the development of effective products to address European and global health challenges.

As such, genomic research is improving our understanding of infectious disease pathogenesis and immune response and may help guide future vaccine development and treatment strategies [11][18].

There is a growing interest in finding alternative therapies, such as a vaccine that could prevent disease development in genetically susceptible individuals.