Sabin Vaccine Institute launches vaccine discovery program

The Sabin Vaccine Institute Product Development Partnership recently announced the launch of a vaccine discovery program for soil-transmitted helminth meant to develop candidates for stopping roundworm and whipworm infections. Sabin PDP said the program to develop candidate antigens for roundworm, also known as ascariasis, and whipworm, also known as trichuriasis, would not be possible without support from the Gary Karlin Michelson, M.D. Charitable Foundation, Inc. Sabin PDP will attempt to incorporate the new vaccines into existing schistosomiasis and hookworm vaccines, creating a vaccine against all four major human helminth infections. “I felt compelled to support efforts to develop a vaccine against the four most devastating parasitic worm infections because more than one billion innocent people, many of them small children, are unnecessarily plagued by these diseases,” Gary Michelson, the founder of Gary Karlin Michelson, M.D. Charitable Foundation, Inc., said. “I hope that rigorous research, studies and testing conducted by the Sabin PDP,...