{"id":63527,"date":"2010-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-researcher-awarded-500k-grant-for-development-of-vaccines-for-neglected-tropical-diseases\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T00:00:00","slug":"uri-researcher-awarded-500k-grant-for-development-of-vaccines-for-neglected-tropical-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/09\/uri-researcher-awarded-500k-grant-for-development-of-vaccines-for-neglected-tropical-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 researcher awarded $500K grant for development of vaccines for neglected tropical diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tPROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2013 September 29, 2010 \u2013 Adding to a $13 million grant awarded to the 溏心vlog免费B站 last summer, Professor Annie De Groot has received an additional $511,121 from the National Institutes of Health. The money will be used to accelerate the application of her integrated gene-to-vaccine computer tools to develop vaccines for neglected tropical diseases. <\/p>\n


\nThe research is being conducted at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Institute of Immunology and Informatics (I\u2019Cubed). <\/p>\n


\n\tThe newly awarded NIH money is being issued under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. De Groot was also awarded a $256,000 grant to make the tools available to researchers at Harvard, Stanford, Emory, University of Maryland, University of Oklahoma, Baylor Research Institute in Dallas and University of Massachusetts. <\/p>\n


\n\tDe Groot, who joined the faculty of the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of the Environment and Life Sciences just 18 months ago, is the principal investigator of the $13 million grant for the Translational Immunology Research and Accelerated Vaccine Development (TRIAD) program. That grant helped launch I\u2019Cubed at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Providence Biotechnology Center and included 溏心vlog免费B站 among the Cooperative Centers for Human Immunology and Translational Research. The money also funded iVax, an immunoinformatics toolkit developed by De Groot\u2019s company, Epivax Inc., which analyzes genomic information and predicts vaccine targets. <\/p>\n


\nI\u2019Cubed applies cutting edge bioinformatics tools to accelerate the development of treatments and cures for immune-system diseases like HIV and tuberculosis. TRIAD also established De Groot\u2019s in silico (via computer simulation), in vitro and in vivo vaccine research program at the University\u2019s Providence campus. This latest grant brings the total amount awarded to De Groot\u2019s 溏心vlog免费B站 lab to $13.7 million.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThis funding moves us one step closer to our goal of making the I\u2019Cubed an internationally recognized center for accelerated vaccine design,\u201d says Denice Spero, co-director of I\u2019Cubed. <\/p>\n


\nSpero, like De Groot, has extensive experience in biotechnology. \u201cThe TRIAD grant will enable our team to expand our work to some of the most important tropical diseases affecting millions of people in the developing world. We look forward to welcoming six fellows from all over the world to the Providence campus in January. This grant provides us with the exciting opportunity to collaborate across disciplines and to teach the next generation of scientists to use tools that are accelerating the development of vaccines and therapeutics.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe grant fulfills the promise made last year that I\u2019Cubed aims to quickly make these tools available to the global research community for the development of vaccines for tropical diseases and other infectious diseases. De Groot has received national and international recognition for her innovative genome\u2013to\u2013vaccine approach and has been a vocal advocate for accelerating the development of vaccines for the developing world using new tools. <\/p>\n


\nDe Groot said that the staggering number of people affected by neglected tropical diseases around the world is a constant reminder of the gravity of the situation. <\/p>\n


\nAccording to the World Health Organization, over one billion people are suffering from one or more of the diseases such as dengue fever, Buruli disease, Chagas disease and Leishmaniasis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists dengue fever as the leading cause of illness and death in the tropics and subtropics. Cases of dengue fever, once only a problem in the developing world, have now been reported in the United States and recently in France. <\/p>\n


\nStatistics like those are what drive De Groot and the team at I\u2019Cubed to devote as much manpower as possible to new research and development.

\nFor more information about De Groot, the Institute for Immunology and Informatics, and the TRIAD grant research, visit www.immunome.org. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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