WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — In continued collaboration with Rwanda to address the Marburg virus outbreak, the Sabin Vaccine Institute has dispatched approximately 1,000 additional investigational vaccine doses for a randomized clinical trial arm within the ongoing open-label study. More than 1,500 frontline workers have already been vaccinated in Rwanda with the Sabin vaccine. [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 05, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – The Sabin Vaccine Institute has provided its investigational Marburg vaccine to Rwanda to support the ongoing outbreak response. The initial shipment of approximately 700 vaccine doses will be used in a trial targeting frontline workers, including healthcare professionals who have been hardest hit by the deadly virus. Sabin [...]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – Virologist and vaccine development leader Kelly Warfield has joined the Sabin Vaccine Institute as its Research & Development President to drive Sabin’s current candidate vaccines toward licensure and expand its pipeline. A member of Sabin’s executive team, Warfield will manage the R&D program and team, collaborating with peers, [...]
WASHINGTON, July 15, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – Sabin Vaccine Institute launched a Phase 2 clinical trial for its vaccine against Sudan ebolavirus, with healthy volunteers receiving the single-dose vaccine at Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) in Uganda. There are currently no approved vaccines for this strain of ebolavirus, which saw an outbreak end just last year. [...]
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – The Sabin Vaccine Institute yesterday presented the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal to physician-researchers Keith Paul Klugman and Shabir Ahmed Madhi, and its Rising Star award to infectious diseases epidemiologist Nicole Elaine Basta at a ceremony in the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington D.C. Klugman and [...]
KIGALI, Rwanda, Dec. 05, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) – The 13th International Conference on Typhoid & Other Invasive Salmonelloses gets under way today in Kigali, Rwanda, with nearly 350 researchers, healthcare professionals and policymakers meeting to find ways to address the urgent challenges of typhoid and other invasive salmonelloses. The three-day conference, hosted by the Coalition against [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) – The Sabin Vaccine Institute has launched a Phase 2 clinical trial for its vaccine candidate against the lethal Marburg virus. Healthy volunteers received the single-dose vaccine at Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) in Kampala, Uganda today. There are currently no vaccines or antiviral treatments approved to treat [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Global HPV Consortium, a worldwide public and private collaboration focused on accelerating prevention of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and eliminating cervical cancer, launched today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Sabin Vaccine Institute will lead the Consortium as its Secretariat. “We are building a new ecosystem in global [...]
WASHINGTON, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Sabin Vaccine Institute today awarded the 30th Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal Award to Thomas P. Monath, MD, and its Rising Star Award to Sangwe Clovis Nchinjoh, MD, MPH, in a ceremony at Washington D.C.’s National Academy of Sciences building. Dr. Monath was selected for the Gold Medal for [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Sabin Vaccine Institute today announced that the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has awarded Sabin a multi-year contract with funding potential for up to $214 million to advance the development and production of single-dose vaccine candidates for Ebola Sudan and Marburg virus diseases. There are currently [...]