Sabin Receives $150,000 Grant to Strategize for Introduction and Sustainable Use of Vaccines in Developing Countries

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 7, 2005 – The Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin), a leader in promoting the development and use of safe and effective vaccines to prevent disease, announced receipt of a grant of $150,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the sponsorship of a vaccine policy colloquium to be held at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, October 19-21, 2005.

Sabin Vaccine Institute Receives $21.8 Million Grant to Advance Anti-Hookworm Vaccine

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2005 – The Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute, a leader in promoting the development and use of vaccines to prevent disease, today announced that it has received a grant of US$21.8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Sabin Vaccine Institute will use this grant—one of the largest awards ever in helminth infection research—to advance its Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative (HHVI).

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