Global Vaccines
Global Vaccines, Inc is a non-profit company set up to design and develop affordable vaccines for people in poor countries.
Origins
In 2006, Robert E. Johnston, Ph.D., opened the doors of Global Vaccines, Inc (GVI), a not-for-profit company, spinning out from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in order to develop new vaccines free from the limitations of high profit-margin requirements. The company develops platform vaccine technologies that can be applied to a broad spectrum of disease targets selected on the basis of global public health needs rather than market potential. It is located in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina.
In several preclinical trials, Global Vaccines' novel technologies have already shown remarkable promise across a range of disease targets.[1] [2]
References
Primary technology publications from GVI
- ↑ Carroll TD, Matzinger SR, Barro M, Fritts L, McChesney MB, Miller CJ, Johnston RE (2011). "Alphavirus replicon-based adjuvants enhance the immunogenicity and effectiveness of Fluzone® in rhesus macaques". Vaccine. 29 (5): 931–940. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.11.024. PMC 3026063
. PMID 21111777. - ↑ LoBue AD, Thompson JM, Lindesmith L, Johnston RE, Baric RS (2009). "Alphavirus-adjuvanted norovirus-like particle vaccines: heterologous, humoral, and mucosal immune responses protect against murine norovirus challenge". J. Virol. 83 (7): 3212–3227. doi:10.1128/JVI.01650-08. PMC 2655567. PMID 19176631.