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July 5, 2002

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

"NIH Awards $14.8M for Study of AIDS in China"

Boston Globe (www.boston.com/globe) (07/02/02) P. C2; Barnard, Anne

Following the United Nations' warning that an AIDS epidemic is imminent in China, the National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers there a five-year, $14.8 million grant, the largest to date under the Comprehensive International Program for Research on AIDS (CIPRA).  The funding will mean that Dr. Yiming Shao and fellow researchers at the Academy of Medical Scientists can move forward with the testing of prevention plans, tracing the virus' origination-point in China, continuing experiments on three potential vaccines, and investigating how the Chinese strain differs from those found elsewhere.  The study may also help U.S. scientists determine whether different HIV strains will require separate vaccines.  Three Boston-based scientists including Dr. Judy Lieberman of the Center for Blood Research, Dr. Ruth Ruprecht of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Yichen Lu of the Harvard School of  Public Health, will be working with the Chinese team.

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