WASHINGTON, Dec. 04, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – The Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) has sent more than 640 doses of its investigational cAd3-Marburg Vaccine to Ethiopia to support the country’s response to its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease. Marburg is a highly contagious hemorrhagic fever disease and can have a high case fatality rate of [...]
WASHINGTON, July 21, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) — Renowned global health expert Rebecca Martin, PhD, recognized internationally for her leadership in developing and implementing immunization programs and strengthening health systems, joins the Sabin Vaccine Institute today as President of Global Immunization, assuming the reins of the nonprofit’s efforts in vaccination innovation and extending vaccine access. Martin [...]
WASHINGTON, May 13, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) – The Sabin Vaccine Institute today awarded the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal to pediatrician Katherine O’Brien, MD, MPH, for her research on the pneumococcal vaccine and leadership in global vaccine research and access, and its Rising Star Award to dedicated physician and public health specialist Livancliff Mbianke, MD, [...]
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2025 (Korea Bizwire) — The Sabin Vaccine Institute has launched a multi-site Phase 2 clinical trial in the U.S. for its Marburg vaccine candidate, administering doses to the first participants in Melbourne, Florida. This trial builds on ongoing Phase 2 testing in Kenya and Uganda, with initial findings from that research expected [...]
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 [...]