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December 16, 2002
INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS
"German Govt. Backs Vaccine Development Initiative"
Reuters Health Information Services (www.reutershealth.com) (12/13/02); Stafford, Ned
Edelgard Bulmahn, Germany's Minister of Education and Research, announced on Thursday a five-year 25 million euro grant for a new initiative to support research and speed up vaccine development. The clinical demand for vaccines against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria is critical, and the market ever expanding, according to Bulmahn. Germany's position as a developer of therapeutic vaccines for treating disease will be enhanced by the project. The program will be managed by the Society for Biotechnological Research and carried out by Vakzine Projekt Management GmbH and the Deuctsche Stiftung Impfstoff-Forschung Foundation.
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