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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine will receive up to $6.2 million over five years from the National Institute Of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop a vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome, commonly called SARS. "This will be our first major effort to develop a vaccine for a potential public health emergency threat in the United States. It gets us into a new area of biodefense while in the past we've been focusing on...

While vaccines are perhaps medicine's most important success story, there is always room for improvement. Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University's Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) appear to have done just that. As explained in a newly published research paper, Mark Slifka, Ph.D., and colleagues have discovered a new method for creating vaccines that is thought to be safer and more effective than current approaches. The research results are published online in the...

ATLANTA, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTCQB/OTCBB: GOVX), an Atlanta-based biopharmaceutical firm developing vaccines to prevent and fight Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infections, today announced that the NIH-funded HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) has opened enrollment for a Phase 1 trial for the company's second-generation HIV vaccine. The second-generation vaccine is identical to the( )first generation (currently in a Phase 2a clinical trial) except for...

SWIFTWATER, Pa., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY), announced today new Phase III data for its investigational quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV) in children 6 months through 8 years of age. This pediatric study evaluated the safety and immunogenicity of QIV compared to currently licensed Fluzone(® )(Influenza Virus Vaccine). Results of the study were presented today at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric...

MERIDEN, Conn., April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Protein Sciences Corporation has expanded its senior management team by adding leaders in the areas of manufacturing and finance. The additions come at a time of great anticipation as the Company prepares for the launch of its first product, FluBlok®, a first-in-class recombinant vaccine for seasonal influenza. Mireli Fino joins us as VP, Manufacturing Operations. She comes from Wyeth (now Pfizer) where she spent the past 20 years in...

PRINCETON, N.J., April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Soligenix, Inc. (OTCBB: SNGX) (Soligenix or the Company), a development stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today further progress in the development of ThermoVax(TM), its proprietary vaccine thermostabilization technology. Progress has been based on additional characterization of the stability of prototype vaccines that have been kept at elevated temperatures in excess of three months. These studies are being conducted as part...

Analysis by NIH-supported scientists may help identify requirements for HIV vaccine Insights into how the first vaccine ever reported to modestly prevent HIV infection in people might have worked were published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Scientists have found that among adults who received the experimental HIV vaccine during the landmark RV144 clinical trial (http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2009/pages/thaivaxstudy.aspx), those who produced relatively...

NEWARK, Del., March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- iBio, Inc. (NYSE AMEX: IBIO) today announced completion of the first human trial of iBioLaunch-produced H1N1 influenza vaccine (HAC1) that began September 13, 2010. This Phase 1, single-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation study was conducted to assess the safety and reactogenicity and immunogenicity of HAC1 produced by iBio's research collaborator, the Fraunhofer USA Center for Molecular Biotechnology. The trial was supported by...

BLUE BELL, Pa., March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: INO) announced today that a global vaccine industry leader has joined the company's Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Anthony Ford-Hutchinson, with over 30 years' experience in vaccine development and commercialization and formerly at Merck and Co., will contribute strategic business and scientific guidance as the company advances its preclinical and clinical-stage pipeline of synthetic vaccines for...

Discovery provides new insights into inner workings of our immune system Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a new 'off switch' in our immune response which could be boosted in diseases caused by over-activation of our immune system, or blocked to improve vaccines. The findings are published this week in the journal Nature Communications. The research was funded by Health Research Board, Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland. The research team, led by Dr Anne...