Items Tagged ‘vaccines’
November 26, 2019
Pursuing the holy grail of flu vaccines
By Advancing the Science contributor 
The National Institutes of Health recently established a new research network, Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers (CIVICs), with the collective goal to overcome current problems facing influenza vaccines in order to create long-lasting, broadly protective vaccines. The CIVICs program will include three Vaccine Centers, one Vaccine Manufacturing and Toxicology Core, two Clinical Cores, and one […]
Tags: collaboration, influenza, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Richard B. Kennedy, vaccines
July 1, 2019
Community preparedness for future outbreaks: Lessons from whooping cough
Lately the news has contained many stories of illness or death that could have been prevented by vaccination. Although in 2019 the stories have mostly been about measles, in 2016 it was pertussis, or whooping cough, as it was in 2012, and 2004-2005. The Centers for Disease Control estimates 24.1 million cases of whooping cough […]
Tags: Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Chung-Il Wi, epidemiology, Euijung Ryu, immunization, personalized medicine, pertussis, Rochester Epidemiology Project, vaccines, whooping cough, Young Juhn
June 27, 2019
From the desk of a fellow–Zika Virus: A Continuing Focus for Vaccine Development
By Advancing the Science contributor
Stephen Crooke, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Vaccine Research Group within the Mayo Clinic Department of General Internal Medicine. As a postdoctoral research fellow in the Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group, my research is centered primarily around the use of systems biology approaches to develop a more comprehensive understanding of vaccine […]
Tags: Gregory Poland, immunology, infectious disease, Inna Ovsyannikova, Richard Kennedy, Stephen Crooke, vaccines
April 12, 2016
A Head Start for HPV Vaccine: Better Series Completion
The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD), with about 14 million new cases each year. Surprisingly, this STD is largely asymptomatic but can carry quite a punch. HPV affects both men and women and can cause cervical cancer and other cancers of the genitals, anus, mouth, and throat, all of […]
Tags: Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, immunization, Jennifer St. Sauver, population health, Robert Jacobson, Rochester Epidemiology Project, vaccines