New Generation Vaccines

Myrone M. Levine, Gordon Dougan, Michael F. Good, Gary J. Nabel, James P. Nataro, Rino Rappuoli

• Vaccines and Vaccination in Historical Perspective. An Overview of Biotechnology in Vaccine Initial Clinical Evaluation of New Vaccine Candidates: Investigators' Perspective of Phase I and II Clinical Trials of Safety, Immunogenicity & Preliminary Efficacy Development. Clinical vaccine trials in developing countries Long-Term Evaluation of Vaccine Protection: Methodological Issues for Phase III and IV Studies (including designs to measure herd immunity). Ethical Considerations in the Conduct of Vaccine Trials in Developing Countries Vaccine Economics: From Candidates to Commercialized Products in the Developing World (will include new G8 financing mechanisms). Development and Supply of Vaccines: An Industry Perspective Reaching Every Child - Achieving Equity in Global Immunization A Paradigm for International Cooperation: the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) and the Vaccine Fund Economic Analyses of Vaccines and Vaccination Programs The Role of the Food and Drug Administration and other Industrialized Country Regulatory Agencies in Vaccine Testing and Licensure Strengthening Regulatory Agencies in Developing Countries Developing Safe Vaccines A Primer on Large-Scale Manufacture of Modern Vaccines. Polio Eradication: Ever Closer to a Worthy but Elusive Goal Full Genome Sequence Analysis (Data Mining) and Bioinformatics Overview of Reverse Vaccinology Recent Advances in Immunology that Impact Vaccine Development How the Innate Immune System Affects Adaptive Immune Responses to Vaccines Immunodominance, Deceptive Imprinting & B Cell Mimotopes Standardization and High-Throughput Measurement of T-Cell and B-Cell Responses to Vaccines The Challenge of Inducing Protection in Very Young Infants and the Elderly. Vaccination and Autoimmunity An Overview of Adjuvants for the Future Immune-Enhancing Sequences (CpG Motifs), Cytokines, and Other Immunomodulatory Moieties. Use of Genetically Detoxified Mutants of Cholera and Escherichia coli Hea