The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome announced Wednesday they would put about $550 million into Phase III trials for a tuberculosis vaccine originally developed by the drug company GSK.
“Scientifically, it’s huge,” said Eric Rubin, a researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Healththe bacterium that causes TB. “If you were able to drive down the rate of TB by half, that would save a really substantial number of lives in the world.”It has taken 100 years for a new TB vaccine to advance.
The delay between M72’s trial phases highlights persistent issues with inequity in treating infectious disease, said immunologist
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