Sentences with phrase «vaccine trial volunteer»

See an interview with an RV247 Ebola vaccine trial volunteer.

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Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University are currently looking for volunteers that can be tested during an upcoming clinical trial for a vaccine that may cure HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

In households where women between the ages of 15 and 40 were pregnant, volunteer participants were administered either influenza vaccine or placebo as part of a randomized, placebo - controlled Phase 4 clinical trial.

By some estimates one in 5,000 Zika patients develops GBS, but the question of whether the vaccine — which would contain some viral DNA if not the whole virus — will also cause this rare side effect will not be adequately answered in small trials that contain less than 100 volunteers.

In the trials, a total of 67 healthy adult volunteers received two injections, four weeks apart: 55 received the ZPIV vaccine and 12 received a placebo.

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.

Tested in a U.S. - sponsored trial that involved more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand, the vaccine was administered in six injected doses starting in 2006 to half of the group, and the other half received a placebo.

The reliably high percentage of those who develop viremia following exposure to this challenge virus is another advantage — when most or all volunteers develop viremia or other signs of infection, clinical trials can enroll relatively small numbers of people but still achieve answers to such questions as whether a candidate vaccine protects against infection, she noted.

A clinical trial in which volunteers were infected with dengue virus six months after receiving either an experimental dengue vaccine developed by scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or a placebo injection yielded starkly contrasting results.

Just a few weeks ago, WHO said that using any of the experimental drugs or vaccines in the pipeline simply wasn't in the cards, because none of them have been through a phase I clinical study, the type of trial in which medical products are tested on healthy volunteers to study their toxicity.

In the trial of the bivalent vaccine, volunteers received one of two doses.

A new clinical trial in which the vaccine will be given intravenously to 51 volunteers is scheduled to start next month at VCR; another trial in Tanzania is on the drawing board.

Further trials are planned for Switzerland, Mali, and Uganda; Ballou says altogether about 150 volunteers will receive the single - dose vaccine.

Druilhe says planned trials of the MSP3 vaccine with adult volunteers in Burkina Faso have been delayed by red tape and slow funding, but he hopes to begin them sometime next year.

This can eliminate, or at least greatly reduce, long and costly trials, and fewer volunteer subjects will be exposed to potentially dangerous vaccines.

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.

If monkeys are protected by the vaccine, and there are no signs of adverse effects, then human volunteer trials can not be far away.»

The Step study, an international HIV vaccine trial co-sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the pharmaceutical company Merck, was halted in 2007 when the vaccine failed to prevent HIV infection in volunteers or affect the virus load in those infected.

MHRP's molecular epidemiologists played a key role on a research team that analyzed the HIV - 1 genome sequences from infected volunteers in the Step HIV vaccine trial.

It is also acknowledges the vital contributions of approximately 20,000 volunteers enrolled in AIDS vaccine trials around the world today who have selflessly committed to advancing research.

The U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) initiated a Phase 2 clinical trial to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of a prime - boost Ebola vaccine regimen in both healthy and HIV - infected volunteers.

We are in the midst of an unprecedented time in HIV vaccine research; we have four concurrent efficacy trials underway, which will collectively enroll 12,200 volunteers in the search for an HIV vaccine over the next few years.

If the methadone liquid got people off injecting heroin, the volunteers» risk of infection would slump and they would be of little use to the vaccine trial.

Saint Louis University researchers announced plans last month to recruit volunteers for a vaccine trial.

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.

At the International AIDS Society conference in Paris, scientists announced that in an early - stage clinical trial, a new HIV vaccine regimen generated antibody responses in 100 percent of volunteers in most arms of the study.

At least 80 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 35 are to receive doses of the vaccine on differing schedules as part of a phase 1 clinical trial, the agency said.