In a parvo
vaccine trial conducted by Dr Ronald D Schultz, head of pathobiology at Wisconsin University, three out of six parvo vaccine brands totally failed to give protection; two gave only partial protection; and only one was shown to be effective.
«The RV247 study represents the first Ebola
vaccine trial conducted in Africa.
In their new study, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Imperial College London and the University of Florida re-analyzed data from
vaccine trials conducted in 10 countries with more than 30,000 participants as well as recently published data on the long - term follow - up of these participants.
Not exact matches
The company plans in October to
conduct a separate test specifically to study the seasonal flu
vaccine's effectiveness among 480 elderly participants (a demographic often encouraged to get seasonal flu shots), and Phase III efficacy
trials across a larger set of demographics are scheduled to begin early next year.
Armed with the knowledge of how to study
vaccines appropriately, scientists ideally should have no trouble
conducting proper
trials.
And scientists who
conduct human challenge studies, which typically involve a few dozen participants, say they have critical benefits: In addition to saving time and money, they can reveal harm caused by a potential drug or
vaccine before it enters large - scale human efficacy
trials.
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.
Sadoff says clinical tests of spray - dried BCG could begin as soon as late 2008, when his group plans to
conduct mid-stage
trials of several new forms of the
vaccine.
Healthy adults mounted strong immune responses after receiving an investigational whole inactivated Zika virus
vaccine, according to interim analyses of three Phase 1, placebo - controlled, double - blind
trials conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), and Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
In 1967 and 1968, Yugoslavia
conducted a mass polio vaccination campaign using polio virus propagated in WI - 38 cells; Sweden and Switzerland had already run
trials of the same
vaccine.
An experimental
vaccine to prevent the mosquito - borne viral illness chikungunya elicited neutralizing antibodies in all 25 adult volunteers who participated in a recent early - stage clinical
trial conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.
China is to be the first non-Western country to
conduct a
trial of an experimental AIDS
vaccine.
Phages would require a less traditional approach to get official approval, such as the annual process for influenza
vaccines in which manufacturers secure approval of new formulas based on the flu bug that is going around that year, instead of
conducting big clinical
trials every time.
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.
Huttner and colleagues
conducted a Phase 1
trial of the
vaccine in 2014 - 2015 in Switzerland.
For this study, the Swiss researchers pooled data with two other groups that
conducted Phase 1
trials of the
vaccine in Africa — in Lambaréné, Gabon, and Kilifi, Kenya.
The group partnered with governments and
vaccine makers to
conduct trials outside of the U.S., which now account for nearly half of the 30 - plus
trials currently underway.
While
conducting trials, researches also found that some manufacturers» formulations for their one - year and three - year rabies
vaccines were identical.
The second phase of clinical
trials of the
vaccine are underway in Brazil,
conducted by Orygen Biotecnologia SA, and the Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle.
To date, the Network has
conducted the majority of the published, presented, or ongoing clinical
trials of preventive HIV
vaccines worldwide.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), helped identify the viral strain used in the ZPIV
vaccine, supported the preclinical safety testing, and is sponsoring the
conduct of this
trial.
Being both tumor - specific and widely expressed in human tumors, MAGE - A3 is an ideal cancer
vaccine target and will be the focus of many clinical
trials, including the largest clinical
trial ever
conducted in lung cancer, MAGRIT, launched by GlaxoSmithKline in 2007.
In 1999, Wolchok received a grant from CRI to
conduct a clinical
trial of a xenogenic
vaccine in humans with melanoma.
The HVTN is an international collaboration that
conducts all phases of clinical
trials, from evaluating experimental
vaccines for safety and the ability to stimulate immune responses, to testing
vaccine efficacy.
Human challenge
trials like this one are an extremely efficient way for scientists to tell whether a particular
vaccine is effective, but they are rarely
conducted because of the ethical dilemma of the risk it places on volunteers who are purposely exposed to a virus.
Also scheduled for this fall is a large - scale clinical
trial of an HIV
vaccine, which will be
conducted in South Africa and co-funded by NIH.
In the new issue of IAVI Report we wrote about how researchers at the AIDS
Vaccine 2010 conference in Atlanta discussed the limited window of opportunity for conducting clinical trials to test partially effective HIV prevention strategies, including HIV vaccine candidates and oral or topical antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), in combi
Vaccine 2010 conference in Atlanta discussed the limited window of opportunity for
conducting clinical
trials to test partially effective HIV prevention strategies, including HIV
vaccine candidates and oral or topical antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), in combi
vaccine candidates and oral or topical antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), in combination.
Together these data will support future efforts to
conduct Phase I clinical
trials in humans and constitute significant progress on the pathway toward a
vaccine for falciparum malaria.
The findings have led to the first primary
vaccine study that we are
conducting as a multi-center international
trial.
The
trials will be conducted by the publicly funded, Hutch - based HIV Vaccine Trials Network, or HVTN, the largest global network striving to develop vaccines to prevent HIV /
trials will be
conducted by the publicly funded, Hutch - based HIV
Vaccine Trials Network, or HVTN, the largest global network striving to develop vaccines to prevent HIV /
Trials Network, or HVTN, the largest global network striving to develop
vaccines to prevent HIV / AIDS.
Clinical
trials with SARS coronavirus
vaccines have been
conducted and reported to induce antibody responses and to be «safe» [29], [30].
Since then, Aeras has helped develop 9 TB
vaccine candidates and
conducted over 35 Phase 1 - 2b clinical
trials.
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.
The HIV
Vaccine Trial Network (HVTN) plans to conduct clinical trials in heterosexual adults that will evaluate a prime - boost vaccine regimen similar to that used in RV144 adjusted to target the most common subtype of HIV in the region (subt
Vaccine Trial Network (HVTN) plans to
conduct clinical
trials in heterosexual adults that will evaluate a prime - boost
vaccine regimen similar to that used in RV144 adjusted to target the most common subtype of HIV in the region (subt
vaccine regimen similar to that used in RV144 adjusted to target the most common subtype of HIV in the region (subtype C).
To address this growing problem, NIAID is funding and
conducting research on many aspects of antimicrobial (drug) resistance, including basic research on how microbes develop resistance, development of new and faster diagnostics, and clinical
trials designed to find new
vaccines and treatments effective against drug - resistant microbes.
In this role, Ms. Roxland re-launched and chaired J&J's Ethics Committee, created an enterprise - wide consultation service for teams and individuals confronting complex research ethics issues, and provided guidance on issues such as post-trial access for former research participants,
conducting clinical
trials in war - torn regions, testing of a potential Ebola
vaccine during a public health crisis, commercialization of stem cell therapies, subject recruitment and withdrawal, and expanded access / compassionate use.
Its Clinical
Trials Center
conducts 13 - 15 clinical studies per year, and in December initiated a Phase 2 clinical
trial of an Ebola
vaccine following its groundbreaking first - in - human testing of the Ebola
vaccine that showed efficacy in Guinea last year.
MUWRP was selected by the NIAID to
conduct RV 247 based on their expertise in
conducting HIV
vaccine trials.
He is using lymphocyte receptors as targets for new therapies for lymphoma, and is currently
conducting clinical
trials of lymphoma
vaccines.
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.
MHRP
conducted the first Ebola
vaccine clinical
trial in Africa.
The
trial,
conducted in Uganda, also demonstrated that the
vaccines for the Ebola and Marburg viruses could be combined safely.
«The biggest hurdle will be
conducting safety
trials in the most important target population — women who are pregnant or planning pregnancies,» said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and president of the Sabin
Vaccine Institute.
Yet the pace of HIV
vaccine research is now growing so swiftly that the scientific goal of
conducting and completing a clinical
trial may be threatened by a higher ethical obligation — to inform those taking part in the study that the original scientific basis for the research may have been modified by later work.
The department has developed and produced 15 different formulations for early clinical
trials (e.g.
vaccine antigens produced by heterologous expression) and has
conducted more than 20 clinical
trials as sponsor.
Glenda Gray, executive director of the Wits Health Consortium's perinatal HIV research unit in South Africa, presented data today at the HIV R4P conference in Cape Town indicating that the prime - boost
vaccine candidates initially tested in the RV144
trial in Thailand — the only HIV
vaccine trial to date to show any efficacy — induced cross-clade immune responses in a Phase I safety
trial conducted in South Africa, with immunogenicity similar to or greater than that of the responses induced in Thai volunteers.
USAID's investments have been put to work by IAVI to enable both AIDS
vaccine research and the cultivation of scientific and technical capacity at clinical research centers in developing countries that
conduct vaccine trials in partnership with the organization.
Avigan and his colleagues have secured funding to perform a larger clinical
trial for their leukemia
vaccine, and also are
conducting a
trial for a
vaccine against multiple myeloma, another blood cancer.
Numerous clinical
trials involving the use of melanoma tumor
vaccines have been
conducted or are underway.