• Factor Bioscience to Deliver Seven Presentations at the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) 27th Annual Meeting

    Updated: 2024-04-23 12:05:59
    Factor Bioscience Inc., a Cambridge-based biotechnology company focused on developing mRNA and cell-engineering technologies, announced its participation in the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) 27th Annual Meeting to be held in Baltimore, MD from May 7-11, 2024.

  • 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. […]

  • TAG’s HIV Cure-Related Clinical Research Listing: Background on the March 2024 Update

    Updated: 2024-03-30 01:50:12

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