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Johns Hopkins scientist to test Zika vaccine

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Dr. J. Thomas August, who has spent the last 40 years at Johns Hopkins and decades developing a way for people to fight off viruses, has turned his attention to developing a Zika virus vaccine. He is relying upon one of his own discoveries – a means of delivering cells injected with the DNA code of the virus to a person’s own immune system to fight off infection. “Others talk about 10 years to invent and develop a new vaccine,” said August, “We’re going to do this in about a year.”  August is bankrolling his new Baltimore-based company called Pharos Biologicals with his own money and has enlisted CEO David Wise to help raise as much as $5 million to conduct the initial trials.

 

Read more : http://www.abc2news.com/news/health/johns-hopkins-scientist-to-test-zika-vaccine

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