• Gut bacteria boost immune response to fight tumors

    Updated: 2024-05-17 19:00:00
    Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a strain of gut bacteria can boost immune responses and enhance cancer immunotherapy to fight sarcoma tumors in mice. Shown is a rendering of microbes in the intestine.

  • Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses

    Updated: 2024-05-17 18:05:56
    A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found that repeat vaccination with updated versions of the COVID-19 vaccine promotes the development of antibodies that neutralize a wide range of variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as related coronaviruses.

  • Bacterial proteins shed light on antiviral immunity

    Updated: 2024-05-16 19:05:59
    A unique collaboration between two UT Southwestern Medical Center labs - one that studies bacteria and another that studies viruses - has identified two immune proteins that appear key to fighting infections.

  • What We’re Reading

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:42:32
    3pm – Just announced: The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now the first patent-holder to share intellectual property with the Medicines Patent Pool. The pool is a recently-established initiative – funded by UNITAID – to expand access to treatments in developing countries. The announcement is here. Ken Mayer – co-chair of the Center’s […]

  • 2nd Global Forum on TB Vaccines concludes, looks to the future

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:42:31
    The following post is by Annmarie Leadman, Director of Communications at the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation and Babs Verblackt, Associate Communications at TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative – TBVI. Christine Sizemore of the U.S. National Institutes of Health called on the TB vaccine research field to challenge dogma and to think outside the box as scientists […]

  • Live webcast of hearing on PEPFAR – Wednesday Sept. 29

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:42:31
    Wednesday morning, September 29, the controversy over the Obama approach to funding AIDS programs will get a full airing during a congressional hearing on U.S. global AIDS policy.  At 9:30 a.m., the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a hearing entitled “PEPFAR: From Emergency to Sustainability and Advances Against HIV/AIDS,”  in room 2172 of the Rayburn House […]

  • Clinical research fellows educate lawmakers on value of global HIV/TB programs

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:42:30
    Eleven current and former Fogarty International and Doris Duke clinical research fellows made their way to Capitol Hill Thursday for congressional office visits with key legislators. The Center for Global Health Policy staff escorted the group to meetings with the offices of 15 policymakers. The fellows highlighted their research experience abroad through the Fogarty and […]

  • TB vaccine advocates assess efforts to raise TB vaccine support

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:42:30
    The following post is by Annmarie Leadman, Director of Communications at the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, and Babs Verblackt, Associate Communications at TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative – TBVI Knowledge about the global tuberculosis epidemic is misunderstood and will only change with greater understanding of the disease, said TB advocates during a facilitated discussion on TB […]

  • What We’re Reading

    Updated: 2024-04-22 05:42:30
    The ONE campaign has launched a campaign to ensure that by 2015, no child is born with HIV (campaign video accompanies this post). Erin Hohlfelder has a great post on the ONE blog explaining how we can accomplish that goal. Alanna Shaikh discusses the “corporatization of global health” on the End the Neglect blog this week. […]

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