American Pharmaceutical Company Could Soon Be Carrying Out Human Trials For Its Ebola Vaccine Candidate Although the company usually focuses on cancer research, it announced that the the United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency has granted them a contract to bring the Ebola vaccine closer to human clinical trials. In the wake of the recent ebola outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, which has claimed at least 932 lives, there has been a surge of pharmaceutical companies and researchers claiming to be close to developing an effective vaccine for ebola. The letter of contract granted by the US government will accelerate the development of the vaccine. Gordon Link, the CFO of the company, has said ‘there’s a crying need for effective vaccines and there’s a lot of pressure at the government level, so the federal government cam to us and said we’re aware of your vaccine…please get working on this because we need to get it into human clinical trials so we can make it available to the health care workers and the general population when they’re infected with this terrible disease’.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 16:28:33 +0000
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