Vaccines

The George Washington University will participate in a clinical trial for an investigational COVID-19 vaccine.

Gary Simon, MD, PhD, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Walter G. Ross Professor of Clinical Research, spoke to Voice of America for an article on early results from COVID-19 vaccine trials.

Jeffrey Bethony, PhD, professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, spoke to Nature for an article on why only vaccines can eradicate infection by parasitic worms.

Bernhard Wiedermann, MD, professor of pediatrics, spoke to Healthline about measles in an article about a mother who shared a viral photo of her infant with measles.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is one of only two sites chosen for the first clinical trial of a HIV vaccine candidate.

Jeffrey M. Bethony, PhD, professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, and David Diemert, MD, associate professor of medicine, published an article in Trends in Parasitology on lessons learned while creating hookworm and schistosomiasis vaccine candidates.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, in collaboration with a team of researchers at the George Washington University and the René Rachou Institute, have received funding from the National Institutes of Health for a Phase Ib clinical trial for a Schistosomiasis…

The National Institutes of Health is embarking on a phase II trial of a DNA-based Zika vaccine, with the goal of enrolling almost 2,500 participants at sites, including one in Brazil run by GW faculty, spread across countries where the virus has infected people.

David Diemert, MD, associate professor, and Jeffrey Bethony, PHD, professor, both in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, received a $3 million UOI grant from the National Institutes of Health to test the efficacy of a candidate recombinant hookworm vaccine.

Linda Fu, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, spoke to Voice of America for an article about the possible side effects that children may experience when getting vaccinated.