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International Society for Vaccines Seeks To "Jump Start Vaccine Era"

Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 22nd, 1997

A new group intends to focus and expedite vaccine research and development on a worldwide basis.

"We expect to launch a longstanding organization that can sustain major efforts in this exciting field," said U.S. National Cancer Institute researcher Peter Nara, chair of the newly formed International Society for Vaccines (ISV). "We are jump-starting the vaccine era."

Nara spoke in the opening address to the first annual International Society for Vaccines Symposium on Vaccinology, held September 8-11, 1997, in Leesburg, Virginia.

Nara said that the ISV intends to link the vaccine activities of all medical, biological, and...

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