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Article: Berna Biotech teams with IAVI, Gallo lab, Uganda for test.(International AIDS Vaccine Initiative)(Brief Article)
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- Virus Weekly
- Article date:
- March 5, 2002
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2002 MAR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Swiss vaccine manufacturer Berna Biotech, Ltd., has joined a cross-national team to test a new vaccine to prevent HIV infection and AIDS designed specifically for use in developing countries.
Berna will produce doses of the vaccine for human trials starting this year in Uganda and the U.S. This public-private partnership to speed AIDS vaccine science was announced at the World Economic Forum in New York.
Under the leadership of Dr. Robert Gallo, credited with the codiscovery of HIV, and Dr. George Lewis, the vaccine is in the final stages of laboratory development at the Institute of Human Virology (IHV), a ...