A new study by the federal National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows that many Americans think a preventive vaccine for HIV already exists and is being kept secret. NIAID surveys showed that 48% of African-American and 28% of Latino respondents believe that such a vaccine has been developed and is being kept from the public. Overall, about 20% of the 3,500 adults surveyed reported believing that a secret vaccine exists. Other widely reported misconceptions include a fear that HIV vaccines can cause HIV infection in clinical trial volunteers.. To help debunk such beliefs, NIAID is sponsoring the sixth annual HIV Vaccine Awareness Day on May 18. The goal of the event is to provide accurate information about HIV/AIDS and HIV vaccine research to the public. HIV vaccine research is our best hope, along with other prevention and treatment efforts, to slow the spread of HIV, said NIAID director Anthony Fauci. NIAID is committed to educating the public to help correct misconceptions ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the leading HIV research component of the United States government, has entered into an agreement with Merck & Co. to carry out human testing of promising candidate HIV vaccines developed by the company. Under an agreement signed this week, the vaccines will be evaluated in NIAIDs international HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), a group of more than two dozen clinical sites worldwide established to rapidly move promising experimental HIV vaccines through all stages of human testing. Merck will continue its ongoing HIV vaccine development program, which includes a number of independent trials that are under way or planned. Scientists in industry, academia and government have unique and necessary contributions to make to the important work of developing a vaccine against HIV, says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. Public-private partnerships such as this bring our collective strengths to bear on one of the worlds most ...

This project will evaluate an HBV vaccination program as a model for future HIV vaccine efficacy trials in a community-based study of drug users. Two components will be analyzed in an effort to increase vaccine acceptance/adherence - behavioral intervention & an accelerated vaccine schedule. The study also will examine the effect of these variables on risk behaviors and incidence of HIV, HBV, & HCV infections. To accomplish these objectives, we propose a randomized behavioral intervention field trial. We will enroll 1600 current cocaine or heroin users negative for HBV & HIV markers from two closely matched, low-income, high drug endemic communities in Houston. All participants will be offered HBV vaccination and follow-up viral testing. One community will be randomly assigned to receive an outreach behavioral intervention designed to increase vaccine awareness and vaccine compliance. The other community will receive standard care. Participants electing to be vaccinated will be randomized to ...

This project will evaluate an HBV vaccination program as a model for future HIV vaccine efficacy trials in a community-based study of drug users. Two components will be analyzed in an effort to increase vaccine acceptance/adherence - behavioral intervention & an accelerated vaccine schedule. The study also will examine the effect of these variables on risk behaviors and incidence of HIV, HBV, & HCV infections. To accomplish these objectives, we propose a randomized behavioral intervention field trial. We will enroll 1600 current cocaine or heroin users negative for HBV & HIV markers from two closely matched, low-income, high drug endemic communities in Houston. All participants will be offered HBV vaccination and follow-up viral testing. One community will be randomly assigned to receive an outreach behavioral intervention designed to increase vaccine awareness and vaccine compliance. The other community will receive standard care. Participants electing to be vaccinated will be randomized to ...

The design of an effective AIDS vaccine has eluded the efforts of the scientific community to the point that alternative approaches to classic vaccine formulations have to be considered. We propose here that HIV vaccine research could greatly benefit from the study of natural simian immunodeficiency …

The Picker lab is now investigating the possible reasons why only a subset of the animals treated had a positive response in hopes that the effectiveness of the vaccine candidate can be further boosted.. This research was funded by several grants from the National Institutes of Health, funding from the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and a CAVD grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.. In the interest of ensuring the integrity of our research and as part of our commitment to public transparency, OHSU actively regulates, tracks and manages relationships that our researchers may hold with entities outside of OHSU. In regards to this research project, OHSU has licensed a CMV technology, of which Picker is an inventor, to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. In addition, CMV vector technology is being commercialized by TomegaVax, Inc., a company in which both OHSU and Picker have a significant financial interest.. More information on OHSUs conflict of interest policies and ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background South Africa is the country with the largest number of HIV infections in the world. As behaviour change initiatives have been suboptimal in curbing the spread of the pandemic, an HIV vaccine is likely to be an important development as a biological agent may circumvent some of the challenges of initiating widespread behaviour change. The development of an HIV vaccine will require several thousands of HIV negative participants who are at high risk of HIV infection to participate in HIV vaccine clinical trials. Before recruitment for such trials may begin, various scientific, ethical, and sociobehavioural issues need to be considered. One of the key sociobehavioural issues concerns the willingness of individuals at high risk of HIV infection to participate in HIV vaccine trials. However, a psychometric measure of willingness to participate (WTP) has not been constructed, and there is a paucity of theory to guide studies of WTP. Objectives The first objective of this ...

An independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) met this week to review interim data from a large, international HIV vaccine clinical trial known as the STEP study - also referred to as the HVTN 502 or Merck V520-023 study. The clinical trial, which began enrolling volunteers in December 2004, is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. Inc., which also developed and supplied the candidate vaccine. Based on a review of interim data, the DSMB concluded that the vaccine cannot be shown in this trial to prevent HIV infection or affect the course of the disease in those who become infected with HIV (the vaccine itself cannot cause HIV infection because it contains only synthetically produced snippets of viral material). Therefore, Merck and NIAID instructed all study sites to cease administering the investigational vaccine but continue scheduled follow-up ...

Subtype C gp140 Vaccine Boosts Immune Responses Primed by the South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative DNA-C2 and MVA-C HIV Vaccines after More than a 2-Year Gap A phase I safety and immunogenicity study investigated South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative (SAAVI) HIV-1 subtype C (HIV-1C) DNA vaccine encoding Gag-RT-Tat-Nef and gp150, boosted with modified vaccinia Ankara…

ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 29, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (Nasdaq:NABI) announced today positive final results from its Phase 2 NicVAX(r) (Nicotine Conjugate Vaccine) schedule optimization immunogenicity study to assess the antibody response and safety of a 400 microgram, six dose immunization schedule. The vaccine lot used in this study is from the same lot used in the Phase 2b proof-of-concept trial whose results were announced in November 2007. Final results from the study confirmed the positive interim results announced in July that significantly higher anti-nicotine antibody levels can be generated three months earlier and in a much higher percentage of subjects for sustained periods of time than observed in previous NicVAX studies. Antibody levels achieved at 14 weeks were more than 2-fold higher than those achieved at the same time point in the Phase 2b proof-of-concept study as a result of the added injection. Moreover, greater than 80% of subjects who completed the six- ...

OBJECTIVES: Therapeutic HIV vaccinations may alter the size of the resting memory CD4 T-cell latent HIV reservoir as HIV establishes latency when memory responses are formed, including those toward HIV. Alternatively, latently infected CD4 T cells maybe killed, while exiting the reservoir upon activation. METHODS: The effect of therapeutic immunization with modified vaccinia Ankara and Fowlpox-based HIV vaccines on the latent reservoir was examined in 19 young adults who were receiving effective antiretroviral therapy. Correlations between size of the reservoir [measured in infectious units per million (IUPM)] resting CD4 T cells and HIV-specific immune responses, including immune activation were examined. Decay of the reservoir was assessed using random-effects model. RESULTS: A modest transient decrease in the size of the reservoir was observed at week 40 [mean -0.31 log(10) IUPM (95% confidence interval: -0.60 to -0.03; P = 0.03] following HIV vaccinations. The estimated half-life (T1/2) of the

The AIDS Vaccine 2013 conference that concluded last week in Barcelona may best be described as a roller coaster ride marked by highs and lows, Linda ...

The ALVAC-HIV/AIDSVAX-B/E RV144 vaccine trial showed an estimated efficacy of 31%. RV144 secondary immune correlate analysis demonstrated that the combination of low plasma anti-HIV-1 Env IgA antibodies and high levels of antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) inversely correlate with infection risk. One hypothesis is that the observed protection in RV144 is partially due to ADCC-mediating antibodies. We found that the majority (73 to 90%) of a representative group of vaccinees displayed plasma ADCC activity, usually (96.2%) blocked by competition with the C1 region-specific A32 Fab fragment. Using memory B-cell cultures and antigen-specific B-cell sorting, we isolated 23 ADCC-mediating nonclonally related antibodies from 6 vaccine recipients. These antibodies targeted A32-blockable conformational epitopes (n = 19), a non-A32-blockable conformational epitope (n = 1), and the gp120 Env variable loops (n = 3). Fourteen antibodies mediated cross-clade target cell killing. ADCC-mediating ...

During trials of preventive HIV vaccines, trial participants may develop HIV-related antibody responses that could lead to a positive HIV test by routine antibody detection methods (called vaccine-induced seropositivity/reactivity ...

This proposal describes the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Vaccine Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), which is comprised of an administrative component at HMS, two Clini...

Vaccination seems to be the key to curtailing the HIV epidemic but all efforts to make a clinically effective vaccine have failed to date. Eliciting high titres of neutralising antibodies at the mucosal portals of viral entry is a key goal in HIV vaccine research. Thus, this thesis specifically focuses at the strategic development and evaluation of women-controlled mucosal vaccine delivery systems for HIV envelope based constructs, H4A, gp140 and FP-A for the purpose of eliciting high antibody titres at the vaginal mucosa. Sustained release rod-insert vaginal rings (RiRs) loaded with gp140, quick release rods containing H4A, FP-A loaded liposomal gels and microneedles in conjunction with mucosal inoculations were evaluated for induction of specific antibodies in animal models (sheep/mice/rabbits). The formulations were evaluated mainly using vaginal delivery with nasal route being used as an auxiliary. However, we found that the nasal route was extremely potent compared to the vaginal route for ...

HVTN 505 is a preventative vaccine efficacy trial testing DNA followed by recombinant adenovirus serotype 5 (rAd5) in circumcised, Ad5-seronegative men and transgendered persons who have sex with men in the United States. Identified immune correlates of lower HIV-1 risk and a virus sieve analysis revealed that, despite lacking overall efficacy, vaccine-elicited responses exerted pressure on infecting HIV-1 viruses. To interrogate the mechanism of the antibody correlate of HIV-1 risk, we examined antigen-specific antibody recruitment of Fcγ receptors (FcγRs), antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis (ADCP), and the role of anti-envelope (anti-Env) IgG3. In a prespecified immune correlates analysis, antibody-dependent monocyte phagocytosis and antibody binding to FcγRIIa correlated with decreased HIV-1 risk. Follow-up analyses revealed that anti-Env IgG3 breadth correlated with reduced HIV-1 risk, anti-Env IgA negatively modified infection risk by Fc effector functions, and that vaccine ...

HVTN 505 is a preventative vaccine efficacy trial testing DNA followed by recombinant adenovirus serotype 5 (rAd5) in circumcised, Ad5-seronegative men and transgendered persons who have sex with men in the United States. Identified immune correlates of lower HIV-1 risk and a virus sieve analysis revealed that, despite lacking overall efficacy, vaccine-elicited responses exerted pressure on infecting HIV-1 viruses. To interrogate the mechanism of the antibody correlate of HIV-1 risk, we examined antigen-specific antibody recruitment of Fcγ receptors (FcγRs), antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis (ADCP), and the role of anti-envelope (anti-Env) IgG3. In a prespecified immune correlates analysis, antibody-dependent monocyte phagocytosis and antibody binding to FcγRIIa correlated with decreased HIV-1 risk. Follow-up analyses revealed that anti-Env IgG3 breadth correlated with reduced HIV-1 risk, anti-Env IgA negatively modified infection risk by Fc effector functions, and that vaccine ...

HVTN 505 is a preventative vaccine efficacy trial testing DNA followed by recombinant adenovirus serotype 5 (rAd5) in circumcised, Ad5-seronegative men and transgendered persons who have sex with men in the United States. Identified immune correlates of lower HIV-1 risk and a virus sieve analysis revealed that, despite lacking overall efficacy, vaccine-elicited responses exerted pressure on infecting HIV-1 viruses. To interrogate the mechanism of the antibody correlate of HIV-1 risk, we examined antigen-specific antibody recruitment of Fcγ receptors (FcγRs), antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis (ADCP), and the role of anti-envelope (anti-Env) IgG3. In a prespecified immune correlates analysis, antibody-dependent monocyte phagocytosis and antibody binding to FcγRIIa correlated with decreased HIV-1 risk. Follow-up analyses revealed that anti-Env IgG3 breadth correlated with reduced HIV-1 risk, anti-Env IgA negatively modified infection risk by Fc effector functions, and that vaccine ...

There is an imperative need for effective preventive vaccines against human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) as it poses a significant threat to the immunologically immature, causing congenital disease, and to the immune compromised including transplant recipients. In this study we examined the efficacy of synthetic long peptides (SLPs) as a CD4+ and CD8+ T cell-eliciting preventive vaccine approach against mouse CMV (MCMV) infection. In addition, the use of agonistic OX40 antibodies to enhance vaccine efficacy was explored. Immunocompetent C57BL/6 mice were vaccinated in a prime-boost vaccination regiment with SLPs comprising various MHC class I and II-restricted peptide epitopes of MCMV-encoded antigens. Enforced OX40 stimulation resulted in superior MCMV-specific CD4+ as CD8+ T cell responses when applied during booster SLP vaccination. Vaccination with a mixture of SLPs containing MHC class II epitopes and OX40 agonistic antibodies resulted in a moderate reduction of the viral titers after challenge with

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) is a global not-for-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the development of safe, effective, accessible, preventive HIV vaccines for use throughout the world.

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) is a global not-for-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the development of safe, effective, accessible, preventive HIV vaccines for use throughout the world.

The discovery of these exceptionally broadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV and the structural analysis that explains how they work are exciting advances that will accelerate our efforts to find a preventive HIV vaccine for global use, says Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health. In addition, the technique the teams used to find the new antibodies represents a novel strategy that could be applied to vaccine design for many other infectious diseases. Led by a team from the NIAID Vaccine Research Center (VRC), the scientists found two naturally occurring, powerful antibodies called VRC01 and VRC02 in an HIV infected individuals blood using a novel molecular device they developed that hones in on the specific cells that make antibodies against HIV. The device is an HIV protein that the scientists modified so it would react only with antibodies specific to the site where the virus binds to cells it ...

The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is an independent unit within the World Bank Group charged with objectively evaluating the activities of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA; collectively, the World Bank), the work of International Finance Corporation (IFC) in private sector development, and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agencys (MIGA) guarantee projects and services to provide accountability, and determine what works, what doesnt and why. The head of IEG, the Director-General, Evaluation, reports directly to the Bank Groups Board of Executive Directors and not to Bank Group management. The World Bank Group has twin goals: to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. To achieve these goals, the World Bank Group needs to better understand what works and why, to draw lessons and good practices from experience, deepening the evidence base to inform decision making and future action. IEG evaluations seek ...

The quest for an efficacious HIV vaccine has resulted in several clinical trial failures, including the Step Trial, which used a replication-incompetent adenovirus (AdV) vector called human adenovirus type 5 (HAdV-5). Despite eliciting strong cellular immune responses, these trials were prematurely halted due to statistical futility resulting from increased HIV acquisition in vaccinated individuals. The Step Study showed increased HIV susceptibility in HAdV-5 baseline seropositive subjects, which complicates the use of HAdV-5 vectors since pre-existing neutralizing antibodies (nAb) to HAdV-5 are prevalent worldwide. Sampling the unique immunological phenotypes of the rectal mucosa - the site of HIV infection in the Step Study, and of AdV persistence and trafficking - could help explain this trial, since only peripheral blood (PBMC) was collected from subjects. We obtained rectal lamina propria T lymphocytes (rLPL) from a rhesus macaque (RM) model vaccinated with a species-specific simian Ad type 7 (SAdV

Table 3 shows the results. The hypotheses predict a positive parameter for Ab1 X Cf term and a negative parameter for Cb2 X Cf term. Results support this prediction: The parameter estimate was positive and significant for Ab1 X Cf term (bAb1xCf=.387, t=3.286, p , .01) and negative and significant for Cb2 X Cf term (bCb2xCf= -.325, t= -3.154, p , .01). As expected, the parameter estimate was insignificant for attitude confidence (bCf= -.017, t= -.280). These results support H4-a and H4-b.. Although our major concern was the effect of ad exposure on brand attitudes at a later time, we additionally investigated the effects of Aad1 and Ab1 on Aad2 in each evaluation group. In the ad evaluation group, Aad2 appeared to be influenced by Aad1 more than by Ab1 (.357 vs. -.122), whereas in the brand evaluation group Aad2 appeared to be influenced by Ab1 more than by Aad1 (.605 vs. .046). The reason is thought to be that in the ad evaluation group Aad1 is more salient than Ab1, whereas in the brand ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Modeling the economic benefits of an AIDS vaccine. AU - Bishai, David. AU - Lin, Maria K.. AU - Kiyonga, C. W.B.. N1 - Funding Information: The authors gratefully acknowledge the suggestions of seminar participants at the World Bank, The Welch Center, and The International Health Economics Association, and UNAIDS. Special thanks are due to Martha Ainsworth, Amie Batson, Stefano Bertozzi, Don Burke, José Esparza, Mark Kane, Bob Lawrence, Richard Mahoney, Philip Musgrove, Ken Nelson, and Tomas Philipson. All errors are our own. Grant support: World Bank (DB, MKL), the Hopkins Population Center, NIH Grant SP30HD06268-25(DB), and the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health (CWBK). Copyright: Copyright 2007 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.. PY - 2001/11/12. Y1 - 2001/11/12. N2 - Economic models were used to describe the potential for an AIDS vaccine to prevent medical spending and lost productivity throughout the world. In terms of avoided medical ...

There is increasing interest in the use of viral and nonviral systems as vectors to elicit anti-HIV-1 immune responses. The human clinical testing of these vectors can be guided by results of comparative studies in appropriate nonhuman primate immunogenicity and challenge model systems. Recently, we reported on the ability of SIV Gag delivered by DNA, MVA, or adenovirus type 5 vectors to inhibit viral replication and disease progression in rhesus macaques following challenge with SHIV89.6P (25). The best degree of viremia control and CD4 cell count preservation was observed in animals that had been immunized with the adenovirus type 5 vector either by itself or in a prime-boost combination with DNA. In contrast, only 50% of the animals that received MVA alone or in combination with DNA were able to effectively control viremia.. In this report, we evaluated the cellular immune responses to HIV-1 Gag induced by similar DNA, MVA, and adenovirus vectors. The studies were conducted with macaques that ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Corrigendum to The Starting Treatment for Ethanol in Primary care Trials (STEP Trials). T2 - Protocol for three parallel multi-site stepped care effectiveness studies for unhealthy alcohol use in HIV-positive patients (Contemp. Clin. Trials (2017) 52 (80-90) (S1551714416302130) (10.1016/j.cct.2016.11.008)). AU - Edelman, E. Jennifer. AU - Maisto, Stephen A.. AU - Hansen, Nathan B.. AU - Cutter, Christopher J.. AU - Dziura, James. AU - Fiellin, Lynn E.. AU - OConnor, Patrick G.. AU - Bedimo, Roger. AU - Gibert, Cynthia. AU - Marconi, Vincent C.. AU - Rimland, David. AU - Rodriguez-Barradas, Maria C.. AU - Simberkoff, Michael S.. AU - Justice, Amy C.. AU - Bryant, Kendall J.. AU - Fiellin, David A.. N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017. PY - 2017/9. Y1 - 2017/9. N2 - The authors regret that there was an error in the description of the randomization procedures previously published in the manuscript. Randomization is stratified based only on site.. AB - The authors regret that there ...

The death of three monkeys that had been administered an AIDS vaccine in a Boston lab suggests that vaccines intended to prime the immune system to control HIV in the body and prevent disease progression may not offer total protection from AIDS. Numerous HIV vaccines in development aim to boost the bodys defenses to hold the virus in check, with animal studies to date suggesting that the protection offered by the vaccines could last for years, if not indefinitely. However, researchers at the 10th annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston on Wednesday reported that three of four monkeys involved in such a study at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston eventually fell sick and died, even after initially showing strong resistance to the virus. All three died within three years of receiving the experimental vaccine developed by Merck.. Researchers were split on their opinions of the Merck vaccine data. David Ho, scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS ...

Glenda E. Gray, M.B., B.Ch., from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and colleagues randomly assigned 5,404 adults (median age, 24 years; 70 percent women) without HIV-1 infection to receive canarypox-protein HIV vaccine or placebo (2,704 and 2,700 participants, respectively) in a phase 2b-3 trial in South Africa. The vaccine regimen included injections of ALVAC-HIV at months 0 and 1 followed by ALVAC-HIV plus bivalent subtype C gp120-MF59 adjuvant booster injections at months 3, 6, 12, and 18.. The researchers found that at an interim analysis in January 2020, prespecified criteria for nonefficacy were met, and further vaccinations were subsequently halted. There was a similar incidence of adverse events in the vaccine and placebo groups. HIV-1 infection was diagnosed in 138 and 133 participants in the vaccine and placebo groups, respectively, during the 24-month follow-up (hazard ratio, 1.02; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.81 to 1.30; P = 0.84).. Despite promising ...

For its role in a national HIV vaccine trial, Case Western Reserve/University Hospitals Clinical Trials Unit is seeking men who have sex with men who are ...

HIV vaccines were not part of the main stage at the Durban Aids Conference held in 2000. Our knowledge and experience in HIV vaccine development were rudimentary at this time; our journey to understanding the complexity of designing immunogens to elicit effective immune responses was just beginning. But HIV vaccines are a now pivotal part of the prevention research agenda: there is scientific optimism about the ability to develop an effective vaccine and South Africa is now a central point in this research. The intervening 16 years between the Durban conferences has brought a series of hard-won understandings about how HIV works in orchestrating its transmission from person to person and between communities. Our past approaches to vaccine development have largely been ineffective because the viruss exterior coating, what we call its envelope structure, has areas of immune dampening. In these areas, immune decoys are set up and evolve so cleverly that the initial, critical antibodies that are made to

Synthesis and Vaccine Evaluation of the Tumor Associated Carbohydrate Antigen RM2 from Prostate Cancer : This thesis focuses on the synthesis and vaccine evaluation of the prostate tumor- associated carbohydrate antigen RM2. The author first presents the use of the [1+2+3] one-pot sequential strategy to successfully synthesise the RM2 antigen and its analogues as single stereoisomers in every glycosylation step, producing good yields and stereoselectivity. He then introduces the conjugation of the

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Image Credit: Thinkstock.com. September 11, 2013 Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A promising new AIDS vaccine being developed at Oregon Health & Science University has demonstrated the capacity to effectively remove all traces of an AIDS-causing virus from non-human primates, according to a newly published report in the journal Nature. The vaccine is being tested on a primate form of HIV, called simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which causes AIDS in monkeys. After working further to refine the vaccine, OHSU scientists said they hoped an HIV-form of the potential vaccine could soon be tested in human subjects. To date, HIV infection has only been cured in a very small number of highly-publicized but unusual clinical cases in which HIV-infected individuals were treated with anti-viral medicines very early after the onset of infection or received a stem cell transplant to combat cancer, said Dr. Louis Picker, associate director of the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy ...

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HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (HVAD) is observed annually on May 18th. This observance provides an opportunity to recognize and thank the many people who are working together to find a safe and effective preventive HIV vaccine.

Phase Ib Trial of Intratumoral Injection of a Recombinant Canarypox Virus Encoding Human B7.1 (ALVAC-hB7.1) [ALVAC CEA] or a Combination of ALVAC-hB7.1 and a Recombinant Canarypox Virus Encoding Human Interleukin 12 (ALVAC-hIL-12) in Patients With Surgically Incurable Melanoma ...

In 2009, the RV144 Thai vaccine trial provided the first evidence in humans that a safe and effective preventive HIV vaccine is possible. Although efficacy was 31.2% at the end of the study, there was a higher early effect (60%) at 12 months. The Pox-Protein Public-Private Partnership (P5) is a diverse group of organizations committed to building on the success of the RV144 HIV vaccine trial and evaluating potentially improved pox-protein vaccines to determine if they might provide significant public health benefit.

Scientists, Clinicians and civil society advocates present, Ladies and Gentlemen.. It gives me great pleasure to be speaking at this opening ceremony of one of the most important meetings happening in the world today; a meeting about international exchange of information on HIV vaccine research and development.. To the South African government and its people, there cant be any other more important meeting at this point in time. I congratulate you on the decision to hold the conference in the African continent; in the Sub-Saharan region; in South Africa. This is the Continent, the Region and a Country in most need of evidence-based intervention to the HIV and AIDS epidemic. Why is your presence so important?. The right to access health services including reproductive health services is guaranteed in our Constitution. This right to health is indispensable to realising the rights to life and dignity for all people. From my understanding this means that the right to health is a global public good. ...

The bible says that Cursed is he who trusts in man. The bible also says the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Therefore do not trust in carnal solutions to HIV. The only solution to avoiding the HIV virus is becoming born again. As a born again Christian, abstain from sex if you are not married and be faithful to your wife if you are married. Getting circumcised or washing your genitals after sex is all bogus advise. Do not, I repeat DO NOT participate in HIV trials because even if the trials are successful, it is the west that will benefit. The African as always are simply being used as guinea pigs in these trials. The purpose of these trials is to help drug companies to reap profits from HIV medicines. These so called scientists who are behind the circumcision crusade and HIV vaccine trials are working in the interests of the American New world order system and its pharmaceutical companies. They are not interested in you, but only want HIV spread to increase so ...

This observer-blind study (clinicaltrials.gov NCT01462357) compared the immunogenicity and safety of 2 doses of the HPV-16/18 AS04-adjuvanted vaccine (HPV-16/18(2D)) vs. 2 or 3 doses of the HPV-6/11/16/18 vaccine (HPV-6/11/16/18(2D) and HPV-6/11/16/18(3D)) in healthy girls aged 9-14 y. Girls were randomized (1:1:1) to receive HPV-16/18(2D) at months (M) 0,6 (N = 359), HPV-6/11/16/18(2D) at M0,6 (N = 358) or HPV-6/11/16/18(3D) at M0,2,6 (N = 358). The primary objective was non-inferiority/superiority of HPV-16/18 antibodies by ELISA for HPV-16/18(2D) vs. HPV-6/11/16/18(2D) at M7 in the according-to-protocol immunogenicity cohort (ATP-I) and total vaccinated cohort, respectively. Secondary objectives included non-inferiority/superiority of HPV-16/18(2D) vs. HPV-6/11/16/18(3D) at M7, non-inferiority/superiority at M12, HPV-16/18 neutralizing antibodies, frequencies of T-cells/B-cells, reactogenicity and safety. Antibody responses at M7 for HPV-16/18(2D) were superior to those for HPV-6/11/16/18(2D) ...

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This trial investigated the safety and immunogenicity of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals HPV -16/18 L1 VLP AS04 vaccine (GSK 580299, Cervarix TM), in healthy

Current research interests in our laboratory include the following: HIV VACCINE AND MICROBICIDE DEVELOPMENT: An effective HIV vaccine must elicit protective immune responses at mucosal sites of virus transmission. It is thought that mucosal delivery of vaccines may hold the key to this. We are therefore exploring whether this problem can be solved by delivering nanoparticle-based vaccines by a mucosal route, under the tongue. This sublingual route of delivery has been safely used to deliver medicines such as nitroglycerin for decades, but has been little studied in the setting of vaccine administration. Improving the mucosal immune response is only part of the battle, in terms of developing a successful HIV vaccine. Also needed are improved immunogens, capable of evoking virus neutralizing antibodies that recognize diverse virus strains. However, antibodies of this kind have proven hard to generate, in part because the virus structures that they recognize are normally hidden from the immune ...

Despite remarkable gains in the treatment and prevention of HIV infection, development of an effective HIV vaccine likely will be necessary to achieve a durable end to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to a new commentary from Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

A HIV-1 DNA prime-recombinant Adenovirus Type 5 (rAd5) increase vaccine failed to guard against HIV-1 acquisition. is certainly towards the gp41 subunit from the envelope (Env) glycoprotein from the pathogen (1). This antibody response derives from polyreactive B cells that cross-react with Env and intestinal microbiota (IM) (2, 3). Nevertheless, it is unidentified if an identical gp41-reactive Ab response would take place in the placing of HIV-1 Env vaccination. A DNA leading, recombinant adenovirus serotype 5 (rAd5) increase vaccine that included HIV and genes, and a trivalent combination of clade A, B and C gp140 genes formulated with both gp120 and gp41 elements was examined in the HIV Vaccine Studies Network (HVTN) [stage Ib (HVTN 082), GW-786034 stage II (HVTN 204), stage IIb (HVTN 505) efficiency trial] and various other clinical studies [stage I/II (RV172), stage I (V001)] (4C7). This vaccine was the GW-786034 initial vaccine formulated with the ectodomain from the Env gp41 component, ...

GSK today presented new data for its meningococcal group B vaccine, Bexsero®,1 [Meningococcal group B Vaccine (rDNA, component, adsorbed)] comparing safety and immunogenicity with different dosing schedules in infants and young children, at the annual meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID).

Background Infections with HIV still represent a major human health problem worldwide and a vaccine is the only long-term option to fight efficiently against this virus. Standardized assessments of HIV-specific immune responses in vaccine trials are essential for prioritizing vaccine candidates in preclinical and clinical stages of development. With respect to neutralizing antibodies, assays with HIV-1 Env-pseudotyped viruses are a high priority. To cover the increasing demands of HIV pseudoviruses, a complete cell culture and transfection automation system has been developed. Methodology/Principal Findings The automation system for HIV pseudovirus production comprises a modified Tecan-based Cellerity system. It covers an area of 5×3 meters and includes a robot platform, a cell counting machine, a CO2 incubator for cell cultivation and a media refrigerator. The processes for cell handling, transfection and pseudovirus production have been implemented according to manual standard operating procedures

Source: Baltimore Sun, June 9, 2003. MEDICINE & SCIENCE. In post-9/11 world, vaccine research gains new respect. Bioterror, other scares fuel funding, technology, outside interest in science.. By Erika Niedowski, Sun Staff. Dr. Robert Edelman has long had to field questions - from his own parents - about why hes not a real doctor, seeing patients, prescribing medicines and curing their ills.. His response: Im a real doc, except you dont see what I do every day.. Edelmans lifework is vaccine research - long one of medicines most undervalued pursuits, even though vaccines have helped conquer some of the worlds worst diseases.. But now, with bioterror a household word and infectious diseases such as SARS scaring millions around the globe, the discipline is getting more respect - from the scientific community, the federal government and even Edelmans parents, who keep seeing their son quoted on television.. All you need is one vaccine, said Edelman, 66, associate director of clinical ...

AstraZeneca will publish up-to-date results from its major U.S. COVID-19 vaccine trial within 48 hours after health officials publicly criticized the

The invention of next generation sequencing has opened the door towards the understanding of many molecular level phenomenon. One phenomenon that can now be extensively traced is the development of neutralizing antibodies in HIV over time. Through sequence similarity analysis of the heavy and light chains of a line of somatically related antibodies, one can trace how the lineage of antibodies changed from its unmutated common ancestor over time [17]. HIV antibodies change in response to the ever mutating HIV virus. Therefore, tracing antibody change over time sheds light the development of the HIV virus and on the rate of change in antibody development. Characterization of both phenomenon is essential to assessing the validity of broadly neutralizing antibodies as a potential vaccine component for if broadly neutralizing antibodies never underwent rapid development, their potential as a vaccine response would decrease. Fortunately, thorough sequence analysis reveals not only that antibodies ...

Moderna has just announced that its RNA based vaccine is starting a phase 3 clinical trial with 30,000 subjects, so I thought it might be useful to take a look at the publicly available information about the trial, and how they got there. Lets go logically and chronologically and start with the phase 1 safety study. The Phase 1 study A phase 1 study is a safety study. They usually have relatively few subjects, and different doses are given because dosing in terms of side effects is usually an important endpoint in a safety study. Here is the Brief Summary of the Phase 1 study published by Moderna Brief Summary: This is a phase I, open-label, dose-ranging clinical trial in males and non-pregnant females, starting at 18 years of age, inclusive, who are in good health and meet all eligibility criteria. This clinical trial is designed to assess the safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of mRNA-1273 manufactured by ModernaTX, Inc. mRNA-1273 is a novel lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-encapsulated mRNA-based

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Dr. Adel Mahmoud, FVR Board Director and tireless vaccine advocate, dies at 76. FVR Board Chair, Prof. Simon Wain-Hobson, writes:. Sadly, our good friend Adel Mahmoud passed away on June 11. Adel was a great teacher and mover, beloved by colleagues and everyone whose lives he touched. As president of Merck Vaccines, he played a pivotal role in bringing the rotavirus, HPV and shingles vaccines to market, as well as the quadrivalent measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) vaccine. According to Merck, more than 500 million doses of these four vaccines have been distributed globally, saving hundreds of thousands of lives.. Our perspective is less well known. He was an active and unswerving supporter of the Foundation for Vaccine Research. On a rough day, Adel would always find a way to encourage, infecting us with his enthusiasm. He could be very down to earth. While recognizing the power of modern technology, he saw the disconnect between academic research and the grunt work necessary to producing a ...

The Center for Virology and Vaccine Research (CVVR) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center aims to promote research and education activities related to virology, vaccinology, and related disciplines, including basic, translational, and clinical vaccine research. Learn more about the center at BIDMC in Boston.

Macaque monkeys are the most important animal model for AIDS vaccine development and are increasingly being used in biodefense research. An individuals immunog...

Researchers at 14 institutions will explore new approaches to designing a vaccine against HIV with awards that are part of an anticipated four-year, $34.8 million initiative, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced today.. The awards reflect directions suggested by previous research, as well as the need to explore new avenues toward a vaccine, NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci told Science Speaks.. The whole issue of HIV vaccines has been a difficult black box for researchers, Fauci said Tuesday. Unexpected results from the RV144 vaccine trial in Thailand, the one vaccine that has been modestly successful, Fauci said, are among the developments in recent years to suggest possible directions for new vaccine design.. While the vaccine candidate tested in Thailand was not successful enough to be considered promising as it is, it yielded information on avenues that researchers had not pursued, and hopes for a candidate that could address the some of the most ...

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Observing the evolution of a particular type of antibody in an infected HIV-1 patient, a study spearheaded by Duke University, including analysis from Los Alamos National Laboratory, has provided insights that will enable vaccination strategies that mimic the actual antibody development within the body. The kind of antibody studied is called a broadly cross-reactive neutralizing antibody, and details of its generation could provide a blueprint for effective vaccination, according to the studys authors. In a paper published online in Nature this week, the team reported on the isolation, evolution and structure of a broadly neutralizing antibody from an African donor followed from the time of infection. The observations trace the co-evolution of the virus and antibodies, ultimately leading to the development of a strain of the potent antibodies in this subject, and they could provide insights into strategies to elicit similar antibodies by vaccination.

In it, John Moore, an AIDS researcher at Cornell Universitys Weill Medical College in New York City, argues that one of the two vaccine trials planned for 2002 should be scrapped. One is led by the US Department of Defense, the other by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Both trials will test very similar vaccine regimes: a dose of canary pox virus engineered to express HIV-1 proteins, followed by a booster shot of the HIV protein gp120 ...

A group of researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center are testing a vaccine for the Zika virus they say has exceeded expectations in animal trials, requiring only one shot to effectively stave off the disease that has been linked to devastating birth defects.. The protection was striking, said lead researcher Daniel Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel. This gives us an option for a safe and effective vaccine for humans.. Read More ...

The requirement of ultra-low temperature freezes, which isnt out there in India, is without doubt one of the main explanation why the Indian authorities shouldnt be enthused about procuring the vaccine which is being developed by Pfizer and its German associate BioNTech, a senior authorities official mentioned on situation of anonymity.. The spokesperson mentioned that the corporate has developed detailed logistical plans; and instruments to assist efficient vaccine transport, storage; and steady temperature monitoring. The spokesperson mentioned, We have now expertise working with clients in all markets; and have developed complete options to associate; with international locations to assist in the deployment of this vaccine.. For India, among the many early entrants, the result of trials of Russias Sputnik and College of Oxfords Covidshield vaccines at the same time as early knowledge from Pfizers COVID-19 vaccine efficacy trial spurs sentiment globally.. The interim efficacy knowledge ...

he Universities of Connecticut and Missouri-Columbia have been awarded a $5.1 million five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate some of the most prevalent and damaging respiratory and diarrheal diseases in cattle, swine and poultry. Researchers from UConns Center of Excellence for Vaccine Research and the University of Missouris Program for Prevention of Animal Infectious Disease will combine their expertise to develop advanced vaccines for these commercially important food animals. Protecting our food animals from diseases caused by bacterial and viral pathogens is best afforded by effective vaccines, designed for specific microbial agents, says Steven Geary, a professor of pathobiology and director of UConns CEVR. It is anticipated that this joint research program could translate into vaccines that would prevent significant mortality in food animals due to disease. Specific research aims for the program include: developing and refining new methods for ...

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the prime-boost and DNA vaccine approaches induced significant protection in hamsters, as well as a specific IgG antibody response and sterilising immunity. Although vaccination with recombinant fragment of LigBrep also produced a strong antibody response, it was not immunoprotective. These results highlight the potential of LigBrep as a candidate antigen for an effective vaccine against leptospirosis and emphasise the use of the DNA prime-protein boost as an important strategy for vaccine development ...

The first clinical trial will assess the safety of the vaccines DNA priming component using three groups of volunteers at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, the University of California at San Francisco and the University of Washington in Seattle. The trial will compare the effects of high and low dosages of the vaccine in two groups of (HIV negative) volunteers, who will receive two intramuscular injections. The third group will receive two injections of a placebo ...

The Sabin Vaccine Institute supports innovative technologies and approaches in vaccine research and development to combat infectious and emerging threats to global health. Sabins R&D strategy is to advance the development of vaccine candidates that have demonstrated early scientific value but have little commercial value, targeting diseases that impact the worlds most

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MHRP researchers examined contraceptive use in women who were enrolled in a phase I/IIa HIV clinical trial in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. The results were recently published on PLoS One, an open-access online journal.

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