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Vaccines

Understanding Vaccines

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

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    Learn how immunizing a critical portion of a community protects most members of the community
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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 Vaccine 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

    NIH Prepares to Launch 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Trial in People with Asthma—Oct. 9, 2009

    NIH Launches 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Trials in HIV-Infected Children, Youth and Pregnant Women—Oct. 9, 2009

    Bulletin: Early Results: NIAID Trial Supports Co-Administration of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine and Seasonal Influenza Vaccine—Oct. 9, 2009

    NIAID Announces Vaccine Adjuvant Discovery Contracts—Oct. 8, 2009

    NIAID Media Advisory: Update on NIAID Clinical Trials of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccines in Children—Sept. 21, 2009

    Statement: Early Results from Clinical Trials of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccines in Healthy Adults—Sept. 11, 2009

    All vaccine news and events

     

    Research Feature 

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    NIAID’s network of Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs).


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

    See Also

  • Engineered Autophagy Boosts BCG Protective Immunity May Result in New Strategies for TB Vaccine Development
  • 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.

    NIAID Publications order form Order Publications

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    Research Feature 

    VTEU Thumbnail
    NIAID’s network of Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs).


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

    See Also

  • Engineered Autophagy Boosts BCG Protective Immunity May Result in New Strategies for TB Vaccine Development
  • 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.

    NIAID Publications order form Order Publications

    NIAID Publications order form