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Philly-Based Lab At Forefront Of Zika Vaccine « CBS Philly

Philly-Based Lab At Forefront Of Zika Vaccine « CBS Philly

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — "Late fall, last year, we were watching like everybody else, the epidemic in Brazil and South America," said Dr. Joseph Kim.So, Kim, the president of Innovio Pharmaceuticals, teamed up with Dr. David Weiner at Philadelphia's Wistar Institute to create a safe vaccine to battle the Zika virus."We put our best scientists on the program and fast forward nine months, and Innovio had the first Zika vaccine to be approved for the FDA for human testing."Pennsylvania Reports First Case Of Sexually Transmitted Zika VirusThe vaccine is now being tested in 40 people, some right here in Philadelphia, before it could get approval from the FDA.


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Zika Vaccine Trials Begin In Baltimore

Zika Vaccine Trials Begin In Baltimore

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A Zika Vaccine Poses a Number of Problems

A Zika Vaccine Poses a Number of Problems

Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, an epidemiologist, seems to be unaware of the many obstacles to the development of vaccines to prevent Zika ("The Coming Trials of Generation Zika," op-ed, Sept. 7).Increasingly defensive about accusations that drugs and vaccines are inadequately tested for safety, the safety-obsessed FDA regulators in recent years have required massive, hugely expensive and time-consuming clinical trials designed to detect even very rare side effects, especially for vaccines administered to healthy subjects, as would be the...