The first patient has been dosed with a vaccine for the tropical disease schistosomiasis, developed by Seattle biotech company PAI Life Sciences. Darrick Carter, professor of global health, was mentioned.
PAI Life Sciences, a biotechnology company specializing in translational research for neglected tropical diseases, today announced the dosing of the first healthy volunteer in a clinical trial of SchistoShield®, the company’s preventive vaccine against schistosomiasis, a major tropical disease threatening nearly 1 billion people in 79 countries with more than 260 million people currently infected. Darrick Carter, professor of global health, was mentioned.
Genome scientist Evan Eichler and infectious disease researcher Tulio de Oliveira have been named to the TIME 100 List, gaining recognition with the likes of famous artists, innovators, activists and world leaders.
On April 11, public schools in Providence, R.I, made face masks optional instead of mandatory for students and teachers—celebrating the move as a “positive milestone” brought about by declining COVID-19 cases among students and community support for a more lenient policy. Brandon Guthrie, Associate Professor of global health, was mentioned.
Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of environmental and occupational health science at the UW, says Gov. Inslee's positive test result for COVID-19 is a reminder that we are not out of the woods when it comes to the pandemic and people need to continue to be careful.
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Scientists in Africa have been monitoring and sequencing pathogens since long before the pandemic. The world benefited from this network when scientists including Sikhulile Moyo, laboratory director for the Botswana-Harvard HIV Reference Laboratory, and Tulio de Oliveira, director of South Africa’s Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, identified and reported the emergence of the Omicron variant last November.
Ever since the draft of the human genome became available in 2001, there has been a nagging question about the genome’s “dark matter”—the parts of the map that were missed the first time through, and what they contained. Now, thanks to Adam Phillippy, Karen Miga, Evan Eichler, Michael Schatz, and the entire Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium (T2T) of scientists that they led, we can see the full map of the human genomic landscape—and there’s much to explore.
Dr. Christopher Murray, director of the UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, says that access to COVID-19 antiviral drugs makes a profound difference in saving lives around the world.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Thursday that children ages 5 to 11 get a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine to boost their immunity as cases and hospitalizations tick upward in many pockets of the United States. Beth Bell, clinical professor at the School of Public Health, was mentioned.