Zika Virus Vaccine Shows Promising Results in Preclinical Studies
A Zika virus vaccine candidate is effective at preventing the Zika virus passing from mother to fetus in preclinical animal ...
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Preclinical Studies Support Army’s Pan-Coronavirus Vaccine Development Strategy
Pre-clinical studies published today in Science Translational Medicine indicate that the SpFN vaccine protects non-human primates from disease caused by ...
First-Ever Malaria Vaccine Has Roots in Army Medical Research
Following decades of research, the officials at the World Health Organization recently recommended the widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria ...
WRAIR, Duke Scientists Find Evidence of Monoclonal Antibody Activity Against Malaria
Scientists at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, in a collaboration with Duke University, have confirmed that monoclonal antibodies can ...
New Ebola Vaccine a Win for Global Health
Researchers from USAMRIID and WRAIR witness major public health achievement after years of contributions to Ebola vaccine development. Ask Amy ...
Breakthrough Malaria Treatment Developed at Walter Reed Cleared by FDA
Malaria, transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito, is one of the top infectious disease threats to U.S. military ...
CDC Launches National Viral Genomics Consortium to Better Map SARS-CoV-2 Transmission
Rapid release of open coronavirus sequence data will help guide COVID-19 public health response, drive innovation and discovery, and advance ...
Isolation Chamber Invented by Army Doctors Protects Staff from Pathogens
Army doctors working at hospitals within the Defense Health Agency have prototyped an isolation chamber that can be placed over ...
3D-Printed Swabs Help Fill Gap in COVID-19 Test Kits
Innovation at the University of Louisville involving multiple departments at the university has led to a promising solution for the ...
Health Security Today – 1 April 2020
FEATURED FDA, NIH, Veteran Affairs Partner with America Makes for 3D Printing Innovations During Pandemic Response Through this collaboration, the ...
DoD Looks to Panther Fusion System for High-Throughput Coronavirus Diagnostics
The U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) announced a contract action to Hologic, Inc. this month to acquire the ...
Meet the Army Lieutenant Racing to Develop a Coronavirus Vaccine
For the only active-duty member on Walter Reed Army Institute of Research’s coronavirus vaccine development team, the job fulfills a ...
The Soldiers Who Took on Yellow Fever
The Yellow Fever Board, led by then-Major Walter Reed and Jesse Lazear, had convened at the Army's Columbia Barracks in ...
Inovio’s Positive First-in-Human MERS Vaccine Results Published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that positive results from the first-in-human trial of its vaccine against the Middle East Respiratory ...
USAID Seeks Innovations in Malaria Vaccine Development
Despite successes in malaria control over the past several decades, over 436,000 people still die from malaria annually and the ...
BARDA Extends Strategic Partnership with JLABS
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) will collaborate with Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS to develop and ...
Walter Reed Seeks mRNA Products for Malaria Research
The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is seeking sources that can provide the synthesis and delivery of mRNA products ...
Perspectives on Dual Use, Yellow Fever Dose-Response Study, MERS Vaccine
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including the tuberculosis crisis in North Korea, Dual Use Research of ...
Army Developing Implantable Sustained-Release Malaria Countermeasure
The Experimental Therapeutics (ET) Branch of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) focuses on the development of new ...
In Pictures: Decades of Navy Efforts to Combat Malaria
Malaria is ranked by the Department of Defense as the number one infectious disease threat to military personnel deployed to ...
