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    Sinobiomed Retains CB Capital Partners as Financial Advisor to Maximize Shareholder Value  Aug 27, 2008
    "While we are extremely pleased with the results obtained from the work undertaken to date on our three marketed and seven pipeline drugs, four of which are moving towards commercial release, we feel this success is not yet represented in shareholder value," said Banjun Yang, Company President and CEO. "We have invested heavily in the respective successful development of our products; now we need assistance in developing our Company's share valuation." These product developments include: -- The... (PR Newswire)

    Glaxo Researcher's `Aha' Moment May Result in First Vaccine for Malaria  Jul 3, 2008
    Glaxo Scientist's `Aha' Moment May Result in Malaria Vaccine ... July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Drug researcher remembers the moment he realized that experimental malaria vaccine might save millions of lives ... Army used the protein to make malaria vaccines to protect soldiers. (Bloomberg)

    Gates Foundation follows new paths  Jun 25, 2008
    That's not surprising, since Gates appears to focus more personal attention on the science funded by his philanthropy, such as the search for an effective malaria vaccine, than on the social and educational programs. It's a habit that has given ammunition to those who complain that the Gates Foundation prefers "techno-fix" solutions and tends to avoid more important, complex ones. (Seattle Post Intelligencer)

    Malaria Vaccine Developer Sanaria Inc. Receives the Technology Council of Maryland's Emerging Company of the Year Award  May 20, 2008
    "I am honored to accept this award on their behalf, and on behalf of our partners who have invested so much in us." The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which is partnering with Sanaria Inc. to accelerate development of the company's novel malaria vaccine candidate, welcomed the news. "We at MVI are pleased at the recognition of our partner's efforts to establish a core platform technology for producing attenuated sporozoite malaria vaccines," said Director Dr. Christian Loucq. (PR Newswire)

    Overweight? You are adding to global warming  May 20, 2008
    You are adding to global warming- Hindustan Times. Sanchita Sharma

    Human trial of malaria vaccine in Orissa and MP  May 18, 2008
    Kolkata, May 18 (PTI) Malaria vaccine will be clinically tested on humans for the first time in India in two malaria-prone areas in Madhya Pradesh and Orissa ... These areas were ideal for malaria vaccine trial due to the presence of two malaria-spreading mosquitoes -- Anopheles culicifacies and Anopheles fluviatilis -- in high numbers throughout the year. (Press Trust of India)

    Jeff Raikes to Head Gates' Huge Charity  May 14, 2008
    3 billion and has committed more than $16 billion in grants worldwide, including projects focusing on stopping preventable childhood diseases in developing economies as well as on developing an effective malaria vaccine. With more than 500 employees, the Seattle-based foundation is comprised of three program groups: Global Health, Global Development, and the U.S. Program, each led by a president. (CIO Information Network)

    The Grid to Render the Web Obsolete?  Apr 10, 2008
    Last week one malaria vaccine experiment, GRID searches its possible outcomes is 14 millian , it takes 420 years in broad band. Now feels the difference, its not the imagination. (Techtree.com)

    Genvec wins $600,000 grant  Apr 3, 2008
    Gaithersburg-based Genvec Inc. announced Thursday that it has received a $600,000 from the for work on a malaria vaccine ... "In addition to advancing our malaria vaccine program, work under this grant may provide improvements to our technology that could be applied to other adenovector-based vaccines and therapeutics," said Rick King, GenVec's senior vice president of research. (Washington Business Journal, DC)

    Discovery About Fertilization Points Way To Possible Malaria Vaccine  Mar 27, 2008
    26, 2008) International investigations of an organism that one UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher calls a "silly little green scum" have led to key insights into the basic mechanisms of reproduction. The findings may help explain why species can almost never interbreed, and also point to a possible way to thwart the spread of malaria, a disease that kills about 1 million people each year, primarily children in sub-Saharan Africa. (Science Daily)

    Self-Experimenters Step Up for Science  Mar 10, 2008
    Day 3: Malaria Vaccine Maven Baits Irradiated Mosquitoes with His Own Arm Stephen Hoffman has given years of sweat and lots of blood on his quest to stop a global killer. Day 4: To Purge Binges, Alcoholic Cardiologist Self-Prescribed an Obscure Drug Olivier Ameisen had tried everything to dry out; then he heard about baclofen. (Scientific American)

    PATH MVI and SBRI to accelerate malaria vaccine search by expanding human challenge tests  Mar 5, 2008
    PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative and Seattle Biomedical Research Institute announce new collaboration to establish center devoted to testing safety and efficacy of malaria vaccine candidates in humans. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, March 5, 2008 In a move that should expedite the clinical assessment of malaria vaccine candidates, the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) and Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI) today announced a new collaboration to establish a center devoted to testing the... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)

    Malaria Special  Feb 28, 2008
    After decades of work, a pioneering malaria vaccine may soon reach the final phase of clinical trials. In the first of two features on efforts against malaria, Brendan Maher reports on a vaccine that is far from perfect but which may provide new direction and save thousands of lives. (Nature News Service)

    * The proper application of technology in trying to save the world  Feb 27, 2008
    We are less accustomed to thinking of global cooperation to promote new technologies, such as clean energy, a malaria vaccine or drought-resistant crops to help poor African farmers. By and large, we regard new technologies as something to be developed by businesses for the marketplace, not as opportunities for global problem solving. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Gates Foundation's Stonesifer Steps Back  Feb 17, 2008
    As of the new year, the foundation has committed to more than $16 billion in grants used to assist such organizations as the United Negro College Fund, the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, the National Council of Culture and Arts and the Chicago Public School system. This time around, the foundation will look to find a leader from outside the corporate family: "It's an external search," said Sinclair. (Forbes -- Markets)

    Malaria Vaccine Trials Begin Using 'Chimpanzee Virus'  Feb 2, 2008
    Malaria Vaccine Trials Begin Using 'Chimpanzee Virus ... Malaria Vaccine Trials Begin Using 'Chimpanzee Virus ... Adenoviruses appear to be particularly potent for increasing the immune response to the malaria vaccine. (Science Daily)

    Mali: Malaria Vaccine Enters Second Stage  Feb 1, 2008
    com: Mali: Malaria Vaccine Enters Second Stage (Page 1 of 1) ... Mali: Malaria Vaccine Enters Second Stage ... A malaria vaccine has performed well in a small clinical trial of adults in Mali, leading to testing being expanded to children. (allAfrica.com)

    A glimmer of hope  Jan 27, 2008
    Washington - A small trial of a malaria vaccine in Mali showed promising results, according to results published in the United States. The vaccine elicited a strong immune response among 40 adults who received it, all of whom tolerated the vaccine "very well," the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said in a statement on Tuesday. (Independent Online)

    Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Trial  Jan 25, 2008
    THURSDAY, Jan. 24 (HealthDay News) -- A new malaria vaccine looked strong in a small trial conducted in Mali by a team of international researchers. The vaccine -- designed to prevent the malaria parasite from entering blood cells -- was safe and provoked strong immune responses (up to a sixfold increase in vaccine-specific antibodies) in the 40 adults who received it, according to the 17-member research team, based at the Malaria Research and Training Center at the University of Bamako. (Health-Finder)

    Early promising results in malaria vaccine trial in Mali  Jan 23, 2008
    WHAT: A small clinical trial conducted by an international team of researchers in Mali has found that a candidate malaria vaccine was safe and elicited strong immune responses in the 40 Malian adults who received it ... A total of 60 participants were assigned at random to receive either a full or half-dose of the candidate malaria vaccine or a licensed rabies vaccine, which served as a control ... ARTICLE: MA Thera et al. Safety and immunogenicity of an AMA-1 malaria vaccine in Malian adults:... (EurekAlert!)

    Making a malaria vaccine à la Louis Pasteur  Dec 11, 2007
    Making a malaria vaccine ... Making a malaria vaccine ... As many as 70 experimental programs exist around the world; eight rival projects are being supported by the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which was established in 1999 with money from the Gates Foundation. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)

    Trial of malaria vaccine alongside routine vaccines begins  Dec 11, 2007
    Kintampo (B/A), Dec. 10, GNA - A study has began at the Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) to assess the use of a malaria vaccine given alongside routine vaccines already in use to immunise infants against childhood diseases ... The study is part of a phase two trial of the RTS,S malaria vaccine on-going among older children aged five to 17 months in six African countries aimed at assessing the safety of the vaccine, expected for use in Africa in 2011 should it meet all regulatory standards... (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    Infectious Disease Research Institute Receives Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for Adjuvant Access and Development  Dec 4, 2007
    The grant will be used to provide adjuvants (essential components for many vaccines) for priority malaria vaccine candidates ... With this grant, IDRI will focus on adjuvants for malaria vaccines ... To accelerate the fight against malaria, IDRI will obtain access to adjuvants with proven clinical potential in malaria vaccines and will develop next-generation adjuvant formulations for malaria vaccine candidates. (PR Newswire)

    Snapshot: Light relief  Nov 15, 2007
    He was recently commissioned by the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute which is working on a malaria vaccine to design a neon sculpture illustrating the feeding posture of anopheline mosquitoes. The exhibition, called The Shattering Glass: New Perspectives, runs until 24 February 2008. (Nature News Service)

    Turning tragedy into triumph  Nov 14, 2007
    "Richards also wants to show people without such an illness that those with disorders can be valued members of society.Scott agrees."One of my best friends from high school is bipolar and is a molecular biologist at the Pasteur Institute, working on a malaria vaccine," she said. "Autism and other related disorders run in my family. My 19-year-old son, Reece, is high-functioning autistic and is finishing up his first semester at Georgetown University with all A's going into the last half of the... (Florida Today)

    Defense bill boost for state firms  Nov 14, 2007
    4 million for VaxInnate, of New Haven to develop and test a synthetic malaria vaccine; plus $2 million for Oxley Inc., in Branford, for Future Medical Shelter System, a deployable medical shelter system that uses lights provided by Oxley; and $1. 6 million to the University of Connecticut to continue its program for developing advanced implantable nanosensors for tracking the health of soldiers. (New Haven Register, CT)

    Whole parasite malaria vaccine to be manufactured for clinical trials  Oct 30, 2007
    Sanaria Inc. and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative has officially opened a one-of-a-kind clinical manufacturing facility to produce a vaccine that uses a weakened form of the malaria parasite to fight a disease that annually kills more than one million people, most of them African children ... "The opening of this facility is an important step in the process to develop a whole-parasite malaria vaccine," said Dr. Stephen L. Hoffman, Sanaria's founder and CEO. "We are optimistic that the... (News-Medical.net)

    Malaria vaccine hope for Africa's babies  Oct 23, 2007
    A malaria vaccine trial in Mozambique has shown that the treatment is safe and effective for babies aged just a few weeks ... The latest trial raises hopes that the malaria vaccine riddle has been cracked, and that babies can now be protected for the first two years of their lives: a strategy that could prevent millions of deaths ... "The vaccine has partial efficacy, so this will be another tool in the arsenal," says Christian Loucq, director of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, based in... (Nature News Service)

    Achievement in Malaria Vaccine Trials in Africa  Oct 23, 2007
    Johannesburg: New research shown that an anti-malaria vaccine offering developed protection to children could be registered for use in four years, saving millions of young lives ... The safety of RTS,S/AS02D malaria vaccine has been confirmed in a clinical trail involving 214 infants, announced the scientists ... GlaxoSmithKline, a global pharmaceutical company, with the Malaria Vaccine Initiative by PATH, an international, non-profit health organization are developing the vaccine. (TopNews)

    Introducing the New Malaria Vaccine: Hi Protection! Hi Safe!  Oct 22, 2007
    Introducing the New Malaria Vaccine: Hi Protection ... Introducing the New Malaria Vaccine: Hi Protection ... Introducing the New Malaria Vaccine: Hi Protection. (MedIndia)

    Malaria vaccine kindles hope  Oct 21, 2007
    Scientists on Wednesday announced that trials of a new malaria vaccine, RTSS/AS02, had successfully cut the risk of infection in African children ... Scientists have been on the lookout for a malaria vaccine since the 1970s but no vaccine has demonstrated a protection rate of more than 35. (Times of India)

    Successful Malaria Vaccine Also Proves Effective in Infants  Oct 20, 2007
    CURRENT ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS. New data shows that the RTS,S vaccine is safe and effective in infants By David Biello. (Scientific American)

    A lifeline Malaria vaccine arrives at last  Oct 20, 2007
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    Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise  Oct 20, 2007
    THURSDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Initial findings from tests of a malaria vaccine are encouraging, say researchers who tested the shot's safety and effectiveness in infants in Mozambique ... The team found that the malaria vaccine was safe and reduced the risk of contracting new malaria infections by 65 percent. (MEDLINEplus)

    Experimental Malaria Vaccine Effective In Babies  Oct 19, 2007
    VOA News - Experimental Malaria Vaccine Proves Effective in Babies. A trusted source of newsand information since 1942. (Voice of America)

    Malaria Vaccine Trial On Babies Shows Promising Results  Oct 19, 2007
    An early stage trial carried out in Africa of a malaria vaccine already shown to be effective in adults has suggested it is safe and even more effective for young babies, setting the stage for larger scale final phase trials ... 214 babies in Mozambique participated in the phase I/IIb double blind trial to test safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy of the malaria vaccine, currently referred to by its experimental name RTS,S/AS02D. ... "The trial was undertaken in an area of high transmission, but... (Medical News Today)

    Mozambique: Infant Malaria Vaccine is Promising  Oct 18, 2007
    com: Mozambique: Infant Malaria Vaccine is Promising (Page 1 of 1) ... Mozambique: Infant Malaria Vaccine is Promising ... Initial findings from studies to test a malaria vaccine in African infants are promising, conclude authors of an article published in the Lancet. (allAfrica.com)

    Md. biotech to develop malaria vaccine for military  Sep 12, 2007
    biotech to develop malaria vaccine for military - Baltimore Business Journal ... biotech to develop malaria vaccine for military ... The Gaithersburg-based biotech company, developing a number of gene-based drugs and vaccines, has signed a research and development pact with the Military Malaria Vaccine Program at the. (Bizjournals.com)

    GenVec Up on Malaria Vaccine Contract  Sep 11, 2007
    Biopharmaceutical company GenVec Inc. said Monday it agreed to develop a malaria vaccine candidate against Plasmodium vivax with the U.S. Military Malaria Vaccine Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the Naval Medical Research Center. Financial terms weren't disclosed. (Forbes)

    Gates closes in on the end of a Microsoft era  Jul 31, 2007
    "I'll have also malaria vaccine or tuberculosis vaccine or curriculum in American high schools, which are also things that, at least the way my mind works, I sit there and say, 'Oh, God! This is so important; this is so solvable'," he said. "You've just got to get the guy who understands this, and this new technology will bring these things together.". (The Age, Australia -- Business)

    Economists see aid to poor nations as ineffective  Jul 19, 2007
    Private companies have little financial incentive to develop a malaria vaccine, for example, but if rich nations pledged to buy the product for impoverished countries, firms would be more inclined to invest in the research. "The challenge is, how do you harness this good intention and good motives into better results?" Subramanian said. (AlertNet)

    Microsoft Reveals Research Roadmap  Jul 18, 2007
    In addition, MSR itself has a team, headed by David Heckerman, an MSR computer science researcher who is also a medical doctor, that has been working on HIV and malaria vaccine studies. In order to further its goals, MSR has set up a network of 11 academic research centers across the globe to pursue research into a diverse set of technologies and goals, ranging from computational biology to collaboration techniques in the classroom to pen-based computing, Sailesh Chutani, director of External... (CIO Information Network)

    People to watch: Robert Bernard  Jun 8, 2007
    We've recently announced initial human trials of a TriGrid melanoma vaccine with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and have plans to start testing of an HIV vaccine and a malaria vaccine with TriGrid later this year. What about your job keeps you up at night. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)

    Antibody-based Therapies Effective At Controlling Malaria  May 19, 2007
    The model described in this study provides both a test for therapeutic antibody efficacy prior to clinical trials in humans and an important tool in malaria vaccine development. This study was supported by a Medical Research Council Career Establishment Award, a European Union Marie Curie Excellence Grant, Antibody Immunotherapy for Malaria, and a ROPA (Realizing Our Potential Award). (Science Daily)

    Students Devise Oral Quick-dissolve Strips For Rotavirus Vaccine  May 16, 2007
    "This is probably the second-most important childhood vaccine needed in the developing world, right behind a malaria vaccine," he said. "The mortality rate is high.". (Science Daily)

    GenVec's malaria vaccine collaboration receives funding  May 3, 2007
    GenVec has amended and extended its research and development agreement with the Path Malaria Vaccine Initiative, actions that provide for up to $750,000 in additional funding through the end of this year to continue work on a new malaria vaccine ... GenVec is one of several companies in the Washington area, including Rockville-based Sanaria, attempting to commercialize a new malaria vaccine, which experts say could generate hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, in annual sales if... (Washington Business Journal, DC)

    Who Should Foot the Bill on Climate Change?  Mar 11, 2007
    By contrast, R&D to discover and develop a malaria vaccine can reduce malaria prevalence across-the-board ... The example of the malaria vaccine is best thought of as a metaphor for the kind of development that's needed. (YaleGlobal Online Magazine, CT)

    Chomsky: Iraq Interview  Feb 21, 2007
    Right now there's discussion of putting serious effort into developing a malaria vaccine, because global warming might extend malaria to the rich countries, so something should be done about it. . (Zmag.org)

    Debate over global warming is shifting  Feb 15, 2007
    Adapting to a warmer global climate, he said, could include anything from building farther inland to guard against rises in sea level to investing in a malaria vaccine, anticipating that disease-carrying mosquitoes could spread northward from the tropics. The debate shift has been felt elsewhere as well. (Boston Globe)

    PATH names new exec  Feb 4, 2007
    In her new position, Sherris will oversee PATH's global programs including HIV, AIDS and tuberculosis, immunization, a malaria vaccine initiative, maternal and child health and nutrition, a meningitis vaccine project, reproductive health, technology solutions and vaccine development. PATH, based in the north Seattle neighborhood of Ballard, develops low-cost health technologies for use in the developing world. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)

    WHO: Vaccine effort saves 2.3m young lives  Jan 27, 2007
    Bill Gates added that "Vaccines are a miracle thing, and as we can add, some day, perhaps a malaria vaccine, some day a TB vaccine, or an AIDS vaccine, the infrastructure and the capacity that GAVI has built out" will prove essential to saving millions more lives. Arthur Allen , author of the just-published "Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver," compared Bill Gates to John D. Rockefeller, two businessmen who "used their billions to do something good for humanity."... (Boston Globe)

    FEATURE: Kintampo Children - Africa's stars in the making  Jan 17, 2007
    The children are participating in an experiment the Kintampo Health Research Centre in the Brong Ahafo Region is conducting on a candidate malaria vaccine ... Results also showed that the protective effect of the malaria vaccine did not wane 24 months after the vaccine was administered ... This experiment would serve as a basis for introducing the malaria vaccine into the Expanded Programme on Immunization, (EPI) a programme, where children are protected against major childhood killer diseases... (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    Malaria vaccine expected in 2011  Jan 9, 2007
    Kintampo, (B/A), Jan. 8, GNA - A health expert announced that scientists have targeted 2011, for the introduction of RTS,S (rpt RTS,S) malaria vaccine, which was currently going through clinical trials, for use in Ghana and across Africa to control malaria ... Results also showed that the protective effect of the malaria vaccine did not wane 24 months after the vaccine was administered. (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    Vaccine monitor says no adverse report on vaccine trial on children  Jan 9, 2007
    Kintampo, (B/A), Jan. 8, GNA- Dr Sam Newton, the local expert monitoring the safety of the vaccine administration in Ghana, gave the assurance that there has been no life-threatening report on the phase two malaria vaccine trials on 540 children, taking place in the country. He also said there was no violation of protocol or rules formulated to guide persons involved in the clinical trials and that both local and international monitoring was ongoing to protect the children. (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    Africa: Experimental Malaria Vaccine Targets Mosquitoes, Not People [press release]  Dec 28, 2006
    com: Africa: Experimental Malaria Vaccine Targets Mosquitoes, Not People (Page 1 of 2) ... Africa: Experimental Malaria Vaccine Targets Mosquitoes, Not People ... Although several kinds of malaria vaccines are in development and testing, none has yet been licensed for widespread use. (allAfrica.com)

    Malaria vaccine strategies get boost  Dec 22, 2006
    Candidate vaccines have generally done a poor job of provoking an immune response, adds Louis Miller of the Malaria Vaccine Development Branch at the National Institutes of Health in Rockville, Maryland ... Right now it's the lead candidate vaccine," says John McNeil, scientific direct 00000564 or of the Seattle-based PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative. "But we're always looking for improvements ... "The whole storyAn alternative technique is being developed by Sanaria, a company based in... (Nature News Service)

    Report defends experiments on monkeys  Dec 13, 2006
    Weatherall said there is funding available for only about 10 major HIV, tuberculosis and malaria vaccine trials over the next 10 years. These trials could take five years and involve 10,000 volunteers, he said. (MSNBC -- Environment)

    Experts defend monkey research  Dec 12, 2006
    Sir David argued that restrictions on funding meant there would only be around 10 major HIV, tuberculosis and malaria vaccine trials over the next decade. "Pre-testing in a small number of non-human primates can ensure we only proceed into human trials with vaccines that are likely to prevent millions of people dying of these diseases," he said. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)

    Scientists Hail New Malaria DNA Research  Dec 12, 2006
    " In a second paper also in Nature Genetics, researchers identify 7 potential molecular targets for a malaria vaccine. Related Stories Top Story More Stories. (Voice of America)

    WHO Launches New Drive for Malaria Vaccine by 2015  Dec 6, 2006
    The Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap aims to develop and license a first generation vaccine by 2015 against the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than one million people a year, mainly African children. "The Roadmap marks the first concerted global attempt at mapping out a shared plan of action for making a preventive malaria vaccine reality," Marie-Paule Kieny, a top WHO official, said on the sidelines of a vaccine conference in Bangkok. (MEDLINEplus)

    Global Strategy Aims For Effective Malaria Vaccine By 2025  Dec 5, 2006
    BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec. 4 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- A report by the world's leading international health organizations today calls for joint action to accelerate the development and licensing of a highly effective malaria vaccine. The Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap, a new global strategy, is being launched today in Bangkok at the Global Vaccine Research Forum which is taking place from 3 to 6 December ... (Logo: ) "Having a highly protective malaria vaccine and putting it into widespread use in... (PR Newswire)

    Africa: UN-Backed Strategy Seeks to Develop Powerful Malaria Vaccine By 2025  Dec 5, 2006
    "Having a highly protective malaria vaccine and putting it into widespread use in affected areas would be a true achievement for public health. It would fulfill an urgent need," the UN World Health Organization (WHO) Director of the Initiative for Vaccine Research, Marie-Paule Kieny, said of the Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap launched at the four-day Global Vaccine Research Forum in Bangkok. "The Roadmap marks the first concerted global attempt at mapping out a shared plan of action for... (allAfrica.com)

    Successful tests of malaria vaccine underway  Dec 2, 2006
    cn 2006-12-01 02:40:09. LAGOS, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Some Swedish researchers seem to have succeeded in developing a vaccine for malaria, one of the world's most deadly diseases, a report from a Swedish radio monitored in Lagos said on Friday. (Xinhuanet, China)

    Start of a Malaria Vaccine Trial in Ghana  Nov 28, 2006
    The Bernhard Nocht Institute`s Ghanaian research centre KCCR is part of a multinational partnership conducting Phase II field trials for a new malaria vaccine candidate launched recently ... The field trials in eight African study centres assess the immunological impact and safety of a promising malaria vaccine candidate ... "The studies are a critical step in making a malaria vaccine a reality for the people in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa. The results of previous studies were already very... (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    Vaccine Against Early Stage Malaria Shows Real Potential, Review Finds  Oct 19, 2006
    (February 22, 2000) -- The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) at PATH plan to speed development of malaria vaccines ... (December 18, 2001) -- In their quest to mass-produce an effective malaria vaccine, scientists might one day replace expensive manufacturing facilities with a goat. (Science Daily)

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    No quick end to Thai martial law  Oct 15, 2006
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    Vietnam counts cost of shoe penalties  Oct 15, 2006
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    Beating malariaTrials of a vaccine begin in Ghana, West Africa  Oct 14, 2006
    Africa begins malaria vaccine trial ... He is one of over 500 children in Ghana under the age of two, who are on the malaria vaccine trial ... Scientists have spent decades working on a malaria vaccine. (BBC News -- Health)

    GSK trials malaria vaccine in Kintampo  Oct 8, 2006
    Kintampo (B/A), Oct. 7, GNA - The GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Biological, vaccine manufacturers in Belgium and the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PAHT), an international NGO, have selected Kintampo Health Centre in Brong-Ahafo to field trial and assess the immunological impact and safety of a malaria vaccine to help combat the disease among children ... "So an effective malaria vaccine would represent a huge step forward in combating this terrible disease", he added. (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    Project on Malaria vaccine launched at Agogo-Ashanti  Oct 8, 2006
    Agogo-Ashanti, Oct. 07, GNA 96 A Malaria Vaccine Project to develop a vaccine to effectively combat malaria was launched at Agogo-Ashanti in the Asante-Akim North District on Friday ... Scientists and researchers from KCCR and KHRC in collaboration with other foreign partners such as GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (GSK Bio) and Malaria Vaccine Initiatives (MVI) would recruit 540 children between 5-17 months to participate in the project under close monitoring ... 93We know that immunisation is the... (Ghana Web, Ghana)

    Bio gambler raises its bets  Oct 1, 2006
    "We thought we knew enough, which of course we didn't, to go out and do it on our own," said James F. Young, who had collaborated with Hockmeyer on the first malaria vaccine tested in humans and was brought on to round out that first management team. "There was a lot of on-the-job training that happened once we started," Young said. (Sunspot.net -- Business)

    Project Bioshield: Researchers To Develop Anti-Radiation Treatments  Sep 27, 2006
    (February 22, 2000) -- The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) at PATH plan to speed development of malaria vaccines. Malaria is an enormous public health. (Science Daily)

    STEVEN MILLOY: Day of reckoning for DDT foes?  Sep 25, 2006
    Day of reckoning for DDT foes. - Commentary - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper. (Washington Times)

    Day of Reckoning?  Sep 22, 2006
    " Today the Sierra Club rakes in more than $90 million per year and has more than $50 million in assets. Business are often held liable and forced to pay monetary damages for defective products and false statements. Why shouldn t the National Audubon Society, Environmental Defense, Sierra Club and other anti-DDT activist groups be held liable for the harm caused by their recklessly defective activism? It was, of course, then-Environmental Protection Agency administrator William Ruckelshaus who... (Fox News -- Views)

    CGI Day One Total: 107 Commitments, Over $2 Billion  Sep 21, 2006
    High-impact Change The First American Corporation KickStart International Inveneo Inc. International Diabetes Federation School of Natural Resources onment, Univ. of Michigan MAP International (Medical Assistance Programs) Skoll Foundation GAIN - Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative Helen Keller International ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability CNIC (Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research) World Heart Federation Save the Children University... (PR Newswire)

    Malaria Treatment Efficacy Compromised In Certain HIV-positive Patients  Sep 10, 2006
    (November 1, 2004) -- The results of a randomized controlled trial of a malaria vaccine called ME-TRAP are published this month in PLoS Medicine. "This first field efficacy trial was an important milestone in the ... > (June 12, 2006) -- Mosquitoes employ the same immune factors to fight off bacterial pathogens as they do to kill malaria-causing Plasmodium parasites, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ... > (April 19, 2004) -- Ten U.S. military personnel were... (Science Daily)

    New Findings Could Lead To Vaccine For Severe Malaria  Sep 6, 2006
    (February 22, 2000) -- The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) at PATH plan to speed development of malaria vaccines ... (February 17, 1999) -- A team of researchers, including grantees of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, today reported positive results of research on a new, broad-based malaria vaccine. (Science Daily)

    New Hope For Malaria Vaccine  Aug 27, 2006
    Though there have been several malaria vaccine candidates tested in recent years, a viable vaccine has been very difficult to develop, due to the complexity of the parasites that cause malaria ... Motomi Torii, professor of malaria parasite biology at Ehime University in southwestern Japan who is not involved with Horii's study, said that scientists worldwide have been studying some 10 different types of protein for possible malaria vaccines. (CBS News)

    GenVec technology adopted for trials of HIV vaccine  Aug 23, 2006
    The Naval Medical Research Center is using it for a malaria vaccine and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for anti-viral drugs and a foot and mouth disease vaccine. GenVec (NASDAQ: GNVC) is developing other drugs to treat cancer, heart disease and ophthalmic disorders, including one in its second and third phases of clinical trials that battles pancreatic cancer. (Washington Business Journal, DC)

    Africa: What Are the Priorities in Malaria Research? [editorial]  Aug 21, 2006
    The RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine candidate has shown promise in early trials (Lancet 364: 1411-1420). Can it be made into an affordable, safe, and effective vaccine that is quickly available to all those who need it. (allAfrica.com)

    Movie Spies On Malaria Parasite's Sneaky Behavior  Aug 8, 2006
    Posted: August 7, 2006. Malaria has been outsmarting the human immune system for centuries. (Science Daily)

    Transgenic Goat's Milk Offers Hope For Tackling Children's Intestinal Disease  Aug 5, 2006
    (December 18, 2001) -- In their quest to mass-produce an effective malaria vaccine, scientists might one day replace expensive manufacturing facilities with a goat. In a study reported December 18 in the Proceedings of the. (Science Daily)

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