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GSK is investing $2bn in vaccine development

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against the dreaded disease GlaxoSmithKline has joined forces with a non profit organization International AIDS Vaccine Intiative for the research and development of a vaccine Development will concentrate on a chimpanzee virus which has been engineered so that it is non infectious but can spark the immune system of humans into responding against HIV

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A juvenile hybrid striped bass used in vaccine studies Credit Jeff Locke In preliminary trials NOAA Sea Grant researchers have for the first

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on disease pathophysiology and protective immune responses This knowledge is then used to generate vaccine candidates that can be tested in animal trials

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HIV Vaccine Awareness Day Reception

Dr Julie Martin Sandra Sitar and Sara Jones at the 2007 HIV Vaccine Awareness Day Reception held at the Academy for Educational Development on May 18th 2007

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HIV Vaccine Awareness Day Reception

Cornelius Baker from the Academy for Educaional Development and Christopher Dyer the Interim Director of the DC Department of LGBT Affairs at the Washington DC 2007 HIV Vaccine Awareness Day Reception

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Flu vaccine development on track WHO official says

Head of the World Health Organization s initiative for vaccine says some countries may begin administering vaccine as early as September

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Chimp research may help AIDS vaccine development

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Posted by Owen Barder at 02 35 PM The G8 countries took a step closer to implementing Advance Market Commitments for new vaccines in their discussions in St Petersburg this weekend Though the Summit was dominated by the

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Figure 2 This figure shows the reported global incidence of diphtheria

Figure 2 This figure shows the reported global incidence of diphtheria between 1980 and 2006 Generally as vaccine coverage with DPT has increased the incidence of diphtheria has decreased However note the spike between 1993 and 1997 attributable to a drop in vaccine coverage in new Independent States of the former Soviet Union as explained in the text above WHO History and Background No bacterial disease of humans has been as successfully studied as diphtheria The etiology mode of transmission pathogenic mechanism and molecular basis of exotoxin structure function and action have been clearly established Consequently highly effective methods of treatment and prevention of diphtheria have been developed The study of Corynebacterium diphtheriae traces closely the development of medical microbiology immunology and molecular biology Many contributions to these fields as well as to our understanding of host bacterial interactions have been made studying diphtheria and the diphtheria toxin Some of the milestones along this path are given below Hippocrates provided the first clinical description of diphtheria in the 4th century B C There are also references to the disease in ancient Syria and Egypt In the 17th century murderous epidemics of diphtheria swept Europe in Spain the disease became known as El garatillo the strangler in Italy and Sicily as the gullet disease   In the 18th century the disease reached the American colonies where it reached epidemic proportions about 1735 Often whole families died of the disease in a few weeks The bacterium that causes diphtheria was first described by Klebs in 1883 and was cultivated by Loeffler in 1884 who applied Koch s postulates and properly identified

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A researcher extracts fluid from a vial at the AIDS Vaccine Design

Potential key to AIDS vaccine discovered study

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Conclusive evidence that the Measles Mumps Rubella MMR vaccine is not associated with the development of autism spectrum disorders ASDs has recently been provided by a new McGill

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WSU Animal Health Research Center Significant research publications in 2002 2005 Staska LM Davies CJ Brown WC McGuire TC Suarez CE Park JY Mathison BA Abbott JR Baszler TV Vaccine candidate peptides

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On Tuesday UK based pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline GSK Biologicals announced that it has tied up with International Aids Vaccine Initiative IAVI to develop a

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Program in Immunology and Vaccine Development

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in the Nizet lab injects a juvenile hybrid striped bass with S iniae at Kent SeaTech s research facility in San Diego Calif Credit Jeff Locke Sea Grant Trainee Jeff Locke injects a juvenile hybrid striped bass with S iniae Credit Carlo Milani In the trials so far their vaccine has been

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Progress toward development of a breast cancer vaccine has been reported by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center in St Louis Cancer

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National Latino AIDS Awareness Day 2007 10 15 07

Jeff Stanton from the Academy for Educational Development discusses community involvement in HIV Vaccine Research To learn more about how DC community members are working for an HIV Vaccine visit <a href= http www aidsvaccine org >the Capital Area Vaccine Effort Website< a>

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