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NIAID strengthens and expands Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units
Date:11/6/2007

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded eight contracts to strengthen and expand its nationwide group of institutions conducting clinical trials of promising candidate vaccines and therapies for infectious diseases. In addition to increasing the number of sites from seven to eight, NIAID expects the Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs) to carry out more clinical trials in larger populations and to safely test vaccines in specific vulnerable populations, such as infants and the elderly. Moreover, all the VTEUs will have inpatient beds for isolating volunteers who participate in the testing of vaccines containing weakened versions of live microbes, making it easier to conduct such trials quickly.

Each VTEU will receive approximately $23.7 million over seven years. The combined capabilities of these research facilitieslocated in Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Houston, Iowa City, Nashville, Seattle and St. Louiswill enhance NIAIDs ability to direct clinical research to quickly respond to emerging public health needs.

In more than four decades of research, the VTEUs have conducted hundreds of clinical trials of investigational vaccines and therapeutics for a variety of infectious diseases of public health concern, and many of these trials have contributed to the licensure of products, says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. We expect this success to continue, as each VTEU has exceptional expertise and experience in vaccinology and an impressive capacity to recruit volunteers from diverse populations in its community.

Established in 1962, the VTEUs are a national resource for vaccine development. VTEU investigators have tested and advanced vaccines for many diseases, including influenza, pneumonia, whooping cough, Haemophilus influenzae infection, cytomegalovirus infection, malaria, smallpox, anthrax and tularemia. Childhood vaccines and combi
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Contact: Laura Sivitz
sivitzl@niaid.nih.gov
301-402-1663
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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