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Maxygen receives $2.4 million grant to develop cross protective vaccines.(Brief Article)

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2002 SEP 25 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Maxygen, Inc., (MAXY) announced the receipt of a $2.4 million, 3-year grant from the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command to develop cross-protective vaccines against three types of encephalitis virus.

Maxygen scientists will be working in collaboration with scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases to develop a single vaccine antigen that is capable of protecting against Venezuelan, Western, and Eastern equine encephalitis viruses. These viruses can cause infections in humans resulting in a spectrum of diseases from inapparent infection to severe neurological consequences including death.

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