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Vaccines

Understanding Vaccines

  • What is a Vaccine?
  • Vaccine Benefits
  • How Vaccines Work
  • Adjuvants and Other Vaccine Ingredients
  • Types of Vaccines

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    Vaccine Research

    Vaccines provide safe, cost-effective, and efficient means of preventing illness, disability, and death from infectious diseases. NIAID conducts and supports research on new and improved vaccines and is a worldwide leader in the basic immunology research that underpins all vaccine research and development.

    NIAID Research

  • NIAID Role in Vaccine Research
  • Goals and Priorities
  • Reports and Strategic Plans

    • Program Announcement

    Research to Advance Safety (R01 and R21)

    Highlights

    HIV Vaccines: Where We Are and Where We’re Headed

    Vaccine Research Center (VRC) Boosts Research on Vaccines for HIV and Other Diseases

    News and Events

    NIAID to Fund Broad Range of Basic HIV Vaccine Discovery Research—Aug. 29, 2008

    NIAID Media Availability: NIAID Describes Challenges, Prospects for an HIV Vaccine—Aug. 27, 2008

    NIAID Media Availability: NIAID Announces Revised Priorities for HIV Vaccine Research—July 24, 2008

    NIAID Media Availability: Scientists Discover How Common Vaccine Booster Works—May 21, 2008

    All vaccine news and events

    Research Feature

    Gambian art
    Pneumococcal infections account for more than 1.6 million deaths each year, mostly in the world’s poorest countries. Read how scientists working in rural Africa evaluated a promising vaccine against pneumoccocal disease.

    Volunteer for clinical studies
    Volunteer for NIAID-funded clinical studies related to vaccines on ClinicalTrials.gov.

    See Also

  • Vaccine Research Center
  • NIAID Lab Developing Intranasal RSV Vaccines
  • NIAID-Discovered Vaccine Used Worldwide Against Hepatitis A
  • NIAID Scientists Use Reverse Genetics to Develop Potential Dengue Vaccine
  • The Jordan Report: Accelerated Development of Vaccines 2007 (PDF)

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    Research Feature

    Gambian art
    Pneumococcal infections account for more than 1.6 million deaths each year, mostly in the world’s poorest countries. Read how scientists working in rural Africa evaluated a promising vaccine against pneumoccocal disease.

    Volunteer for clinical studies
    Volunteer for NIAID-funded clinical studies related to vaccines on ClinicalTrials.gov.

    See Also

  • Vaccine Research Center
  • NIAID Lab Developing Intranasal RSV Vaccines
  • NIAID-Discovered Vaccine Used Worldwide Against Hepatitis A
  • NIAID Scientists Use Reverse Genetics to Develop Potential Dengue Vaccine
  • The Jordan Report: Accelerated Development of Vaccines 2007 (PDF)

    • Related Links

    View a list of links for more information about vaccines.
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