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Gates Foundation gives $10 million grant to develop pregnancy malaria vaccine

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 15th, 2004

Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI) will intensify the quest for a vaccine to prevent malaria in pregnant women with a $10 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The grant supports the efforts of SBRI's Malaria Antigen Discovery (MAD) program to develop a pregnancy malaria vaccine, which has the potential to protect millions of pregnant women and their unborn children each year.

The grant from the Gates Foundation enables SBRI to expand research efforts to identify optimal antigens for inclusion in a multicomponent vaccine that would prevent malaria during pregnancy. All candidate antigens for a pregnancy malaria vaccine...

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