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2001 NOV 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- VaxGen Inc. has been awarded the second part of a $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the development of a vaccine designed to prevent infection by HIV subtype C, the most widespread form of the virus. Subtype C is estimated to be responsible for approximately half of the world's 36 million infections and is the most common subtype found in southern Africa, India, and China.
The Small Business Innovation Research fast track grant provides up to $981,000 for the development program and is in addition to $150,000 that VaxGen received earlier this year through the first part of the grant.
"This new NIH grant will allow VaxGen to create and conduct laboratory tests of a subtype C vaccine that could be used alone in southern Africa and India, or could be combined with a vaccine against the B and E subtypes for regions of the world such as China, where all three subtypes are in circulation," said Phillip Berman, PhD, ...