Vaccines

Faculty in the department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine were featured in Cosmos Magazine for their research in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases on developing a way to test recombinant vaccines for their ability to stay effective after years of storage. 

Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) have developed a way to test recombinant vaccines for their ability to stay effective after years of storage. This is an important next step in the development of a recombinant hookworm vaccine being developed at GW.

David Diemert, M.D., associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, and Jeffrey Bethony, Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to work on a phase 1 clinical trial to…

Dr. Jeffrey Bethony and Dr. David Diemert have received a grant to develop and test a novel, low-cost hookworm vaccine to help control human hookworm infection in endemic countries.

Jill Davies, M.D. ’93, RESD ’97, associate professor at the University of Colorado, Denver School of Medicine, discussed “Vaccinations During Pregnancy" at the Annual Weingold Lecture.

Jeffrey Bethony, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was invited to speak on the role of vaccines in control of schistosomiasis at an international meeting of leading experts, jointly held by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the…

Daniel Fagbuyi, M.D., professor of pediatrics, expressed concern about postponing the testing of the Anthrax vaccine on children in an NPR piece, stating that we should act sooner than later in preparation for an emergency.

The George Washington University, Sabin Vaccine Institute, the Autonomous University of Yucatan, and the Carlos Slim Health Institute are launching a major effort to develop a new generation of vaccines to combat various neglected diseases in Latin America.

The World Health Organization will start vaccinating Haitians against cholera in April. Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor, Walter G. Ross Professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences,…