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2007

April 18, 2007Plan for Development and Purchase of Medical Countermeasures

2006

Sept. 25, 2006NIAID Awards $4 Million to Develop Anti-Radiation Treatments
July 12, 2006New NIAID Program Aims to Model Immune Responses and Key Infectious Diseases
May 3, 2006NIH Dedicates the C.W. Bill Young Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases
April 26, 2006Vaccine Given Post-Exposure Protects Monkeys Against Deadly Marburg Virus
April 23, 2006Scientists Design Potent Anthrax Toxin Inhibitor
Jan. 23, 2006Mice Studies Illustrate Potential of Chimp/Human Antibodies to Protect Against Smallpox

2005

Oct. 12, 2005NIAID Awards $47 Million in New Effort to Develop Medical Countermeasures Against Radiological and Nuclear Threats
Oct. 3, 2005Large Tularemia Vaccine Contracts Among New NIAID Biodefense Awards
July 6, 2005Scientists Discover How Nipah Virus Enters Cells
June 27, 2005Cancer Drug Slows Poxvirus in Mice
June 1, 2005 New NIAID Grants Strengthen National Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Network
Feb. 1, 2005New Way To Block Pox Shows Promise In Lab Study

2004

Nov. 1, 2004 NIAID Launches Program to Improve Medical Tools Against Emerging Infectious Diseases
Oct. 12, 2004 New Study on Smallpox in Monkeys Reveals Tactics of a Killer
Oct. 7, 2004HHS Awards $232 Million in Biodefense Contracts for Vaccine Development
July 4, 2004 3-D Structure of Anthrax Toxin Complex Solved
May 19, 2004NIAID Forms Network to Tackle Potentially Fatal Reaction to Smallpox Vaccine
March 24, 2004Mouse Model Mimics Real-World Plague Infection
March 10, 2004Effectiveness of Safer Smallpox Vaccine Demonstrated Against Monkeypox

2003

Nov. 18, 2003

NIAID Ebola Vaccine Enters Human Trial

Sept. 30, 2003NIAID Funds Construction of Biosafety Laboratories
Sept. 29, 2003NIAID Reports 'Tremendous Progress' in Biodefense Research
Sept. 17, 2003

$85 Million Awarded for Research on Human Immunity and Biodefense

Sept. 4, 2003HHS Announces New Regional Centers for Biodefense Research
Sept. 2, 2003Mouse Study Gives New View of Anthrax Toxin
Aug. 6, 2003Fast-Acting Ebola Vaccine Protects Monkeys
April 30, 2003Anthrax Genome Decoded
Feb. 25, 2003HHS Announces Contracts To Develop Safer Smallpox Vaccines
Jan. 8, 2003Powerful Technologies Probe Innate Immunity

2002

Oct. 17, 2002Dr. Marshall Bloom Named Associate Director of Rocky Mt. Laboratories
Oct. 15, 2002USAMRIID-NIAID Announce Research Partnership at Fort Detrick
Oct. 3, 2002HHS Announces Contracts for Developing a New Anthrax Vaccine
June 11, 2002NIAID Expands Vaccine Testing Network
May 9, 2002Researchers Unravel Anthrax Genome
April 25, 2002Single Gene Leap Led to Flea-Borne Transmission of Plague Bacterium
March 28, 2002NIAID Study Results Support Diluting Smallpox Vaccine Stockpile to Stretch Supply
March 14, 2002NIAID Unveils Counter-Bioterrorism Research Agenda

2001

Dec. 6, 2001HHS Accelerates Bioterrorism Research
Oct. 23, 2001NIAID-supported Anthrax studies appearing in the journal Nature

2000

Nov. 29, 2000Novel Vaccine Protects Monkeys from Ebola Infection

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