NIH launches effort to define markers of human immune responses

Recovery Act enables research that could help improve vaccines and therapeutics

Thursday, August 12, 2010

A new nationwide research initiative has been launched to define changes in the human immune system, using human and not animal studies, in response to infection or to vaccination. Six U.S.-based Human Immune Phenotyping Centers will receive a total of $100 million over five years to conduct this research.

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