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A nationwide dearth of research monkeys has forced vaccine researchers at Harvard to scale back their studies, potentially compromising their rate of discovery, according to scientists.
“We have to design the experiments very carefully because of the lack of monkeys and their cost,” said Harvard Medical School (HMS) Associate Professor Judy Lieberman, who is part of a group researching an oral AIDS vaccine. “Because of that, they...
HMS researcher R. Paul Johnson is conducting a study on how various vaccines affect the localization of T-cells to mucosal surfaces—an path of inquiry important in discovering a successful vaccine for mucosally-centered diseases such as AIDS. He planned his research to employ about 10 monkeys?...
More test subjects would have allowed him to undertake a more comprehensive, multivariate study of vaccine effectiveness, he said.
James Mullen and the biotechnology industry arrived on the scene together by chance in 1980. That year he landed his first job out of college, as a chemical engineer for what is now the U.K.-based pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline; at about the same time in San Francisco, Genentech, the pioneering...