August 3, 2007

Japanese institutes join forces in vaccine research

Four Japanese institutes that already work in the field of vaccine research are to join forces in a collaboration that it is believed will further the research and development of vaccines in Japan.

The four institutes are National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo University’s Institute of Medical Science, and Osaka University’s Research Institute for Microbial Diseases and the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation.

This should prevent the problems that this sort of research has had in the past. Like the 1995 hepatitis vaccine that was developed but nothing since.

Source [Yomiuri]

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