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Adjuvant formulations - a tipping point for global health?

Major milestones for advancing vaccines against tuberculosis and malaria were announced last month, all relying on adjuvant formulation technology. AAHI scientists share their practical and creative approach to adjuvant development to establish sustainable and resilient global health infrastructure.

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INNOVATIONS

The latest scientific breakthroughs at AAHI.

A Practical Approach to Vaccine Formulations - 5 Recommendations for New Adjuvant Development

Adjuvant formulations unlock vaccine potential to provide protection from some of the most complex diseases. AAHI scientists take a pragmatic and creative approach to vaccine formulation development to ensure equitable access.

AAHI scientists identify most stable dried formulation of TB vaccine candidate ID93+GLA-SE to eliminate cold chain requirements that hinder equitable access to vaccines in areas where the bacterium is most prevalent.

Researchers analysed the stability of various dried vaccine formulations of AAHI's ID93+GLA-SE tuberculosis vaccine candidate by applying temperature, mechanical, photochemical, and oxidative stress and then testing whether the vaccine still worked in mice. They determined that AAHI's vaccine can withstand prolonged exposure to such stresses.

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GLOBAL IMPACT

JULY 2023

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Burkina Faso, Madagascar

Tropical disease transmitted by worms on verge of being curbed

Schistosomiasis is a complex target because the parasitic flatworm that causes the disease is long-lived and versatile, with an ever-mutating surface membrane that complicates immune responses. No vaccine exists to provide protection against this neglected tropical disease that has infected over 140 million people. A new schistosomiasis vaccine candidate that recently completed first-in-human clinical trials in Seattle, WA provides growing hope for protection. The candidate uses AAHI's GLA-SE adjuvant formulation. The vaccine candidate will be evaluated in clinical trails in Madagascar and Burkina Faso, where Schistosomiasis is endemic.

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NEWS WE FOLLOW

As pandemic raged, global south lacked vaccines. Neger again, researchers vow.

By Amy Maxmen

The Washington Post

Amy Maxmen discusses the challenges in sustaining efforts such as mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub initiative launched by the World Health Organization to share mRNA technology development and manufactruing worldwide.

AAHI is committed to simplifying RNA vaccine development by creating temperature stable vaccine technologies with sustainable, streamlined manufacturing processes to establish efficient healthcare infrastructure worldwide.

"The pandemic showed us that you can't depend on others when the world is competing for a resource. We need to make our own." - Sotriis Missailidis, director of innovation at the government research institute Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz, whom AAHI partnered with to develop vaccines against hookworm and schistosomiasis.

OUR PEOPLE

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Featured Post

August 14-17 | Florida, USA

At this year's Military Health System Research Symposium, the DoD premier scientific meeting to discuss medical countermeasures, Emily Voigt, PhD, Principal Scientist and leader of AAHI's RNA vaccine platform, will present the promising results of AAHI's research on:

1) The intranasal administration of AAHI's RNA vaccine technologies to provide enhanced protection against viral respiratory infection and transmission of disease

2) preclinical evaluation of AAHI's yellow fever RNA vaccine candidate slated to enter clinical trials in 2024 with the support of the NIH

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Openings and Opportunities

Scientist I/II/Senior Scientist (RNA Vaccines)

Research

The Scientist I/II/Senior Scientist will be responsible for broadening the applications of AAHI's RNA vaccine platform to a wide range of infectious disease and oncology targets and will lead a growing, multi-level, early development team to bring novel RNA vaccine candidates to the initiation of Phase 1 clinical trials.

Associate/Staff Scientist (RNA Vaccines)

Research

The Associate/Staff Scientist will be responsible for directing the in vivo mouse immunology studies on the RNA team, providing support to conduct in vivo aspects of product stability and release testing studies for AAHI's Product Development and GMP teams as necessary.

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