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Major Collaborative Research Agreements in Effect in Fiscal Year 2006

New CRADAs
Ongoing CRADAs
New RCAs
Ongoing RCAs
Gifts

New CRADAs

During FY 2006, NIAID scientists entered into the following four new CRADAs.

Collaborator Investigator Title
BioVeris Lenardo, M Development of Novel Diagnostic Assays for Early Detection and Monitoring of Infectious and Immune Disorders in Human Using a Proprietary Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) Technology
IAVI Wynn, T
Kwong, P
Rational Design of HIV Envelope Glycoprotein Variants for Structural and Immunological Analysis Using X-Ray Crystallography to Elicit Broadly Neutralizing HIV-1 Antibodies
MedImmune Collins, P Development of Live Attenuated Virus Vaccines for Respiratory Syncytial Viruses, Parainfluenza Viruses and Human Metapneumovirus
Merial Valenzuela, J Evaluation of a Salivary Antigen Leishmania DNA Vaccine in Dogs

Ongoing CRADAs

In addition to the new CRADAs listed above, during FY 2005, NIAID scientists also did research under the following CRADAs:

Collaborator Investigator Title
Anacor Barry, C In Vitro and In Vivo screening of Novel Antitubercular Agents.
BioVex Gomez, P Evaluation of HSV Vectors Encoding HIV-1 Proteins.
Chiron Lane, C Research and Development of IL-2 as a Treatment for HIV Infection.
Crucell Gomez, P Development of an Improved Recombinant Adenovirus Vector for Vaccination Against the Ebola Virus.
Genetics Institute Shevach, E Analysis of Gene Expression in Immunoregulatory T Cells that Co-Express the CD4 and CD25 Surface Markers.
GenVec Gomez, P Evaluation of Adenoviral Vectors Encoding HIV-1 Proteins.
GenVec Gomez, P Evaluation of Adenoviral Vectors Encoding Proteins Associated with SARS.
GlaxoSmithKline Hamilton, H
Savarese, B
A double-blind, randomized, controlled Phase III study to assess the prophylactic efficacy of rgD/Alum/MPL vaccine in the prevention of genital herpes disease in young sexually active women (DMID#01-643)
Innogenetics Purcell, R Analysis of the Immune Response to Hepatitis C Virus.
Johnson and Johnson Research (Australia) Malech, H Genome integration site analysis following ex vivo transduction of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells by replication incompetent retrovirus vectors
MacroGenetics, Inc. Purcell, R Development of Prophylactic and Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies to Vaccinia/Smallpox, SARS, and Anthrax.
Maxygen Miller, L
Long, C
Saul, A
Novel, Polyspecific Malaria Vaccine Development based on PfEMP1 Using Molecular BreedingTM Directed Molecular Evolution Technologies.
MedImmune Subbarao, K Development of Live Attenuated Vaccines for Pandemic Influenza
MedImmune Vaccines Mann, M Development of a Live, Attenuated Cold-Adapted Influenza Vaccine
Merck Straus, S A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of the efficacy of live, attenuated Oka/Merck varicella zoster vaccine in reducing the incidence and/or severity of shingles in adults
Quantum Dot Roederer, M Use of Quantum Dots for Improved Cellular Classification in Flow Cytometry.
ReaMetrix Roederer, M Dev. Procedures to validate, reagents, assays and instrumentation for measuring immunogenicity
Vical Gomez, P Development and selection of research-grade plasmid DNA vectors encoding West Nile Virus (WNV) proteins and formulations for potential use as prophylactic vaccines in human and veterinary applications
Vical Gomez, P (EP) for Prophylactic therapeutic HIV plasmid DNA (pDNA) vaccines ["(EP)" = "Electroporation"?]
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Curlin, G Preventing Childhood Mortality - An Efficacy Trial of a Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Upper and Central River Divisions, The Gambia

New RCAs

During FY 2006, NIAID scientists entered into the following four new RCAs.

Collaborator Investigator Title
Adamed Germain, R Software modeling study for tumor signaling pathways
Merck Wyatt, R Evaluate the ability of synthetic or recombinant peptides derived from the C-terminal region of gp41 to elicit HIV-1 neutralizing antibody responses when formulated in the context of a membrane-mimetic lipophillic system
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute Narum, D Cloning and Expression of Candidate Malaria Vaccine var2csa in Pichia pastoris
Upstate Medical University, SUNY Mavilio, D Coded PBMC samples from HIV-infected individuals, expanded CD4+ cells generated from the PBMCs

Ongoing RCAs

In addition to the new RCAs listed above, at the end of FY 2006, NIAID scientists were doing research under the following RCA.

Collaborator Investigator Title
NanoMed Hinnebusch, J Nanoparticle Vaccine for Plague

Gifts

In FY 2006, NIAID received the following gift to support its research.

Collaborator Investigator Title
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Nabel, G Novel Recombinant Adenovirus, plasmid DNA and mycobacteria Vector Based Vaccine for HIV-1
Emory University Shevach, E FNIH Gates Grand Challenge Collaborator Grant
Medicines for Malaria Venture Desai, S Drugs for anti-malarial compounds using assay developed by LMVR

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