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Ebola vaccine gets $115M to speed development

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Johnson & Johnson said on Friday that newly formed groups supporting work on its experimental Ebola vaccine would receive 100 million euros ($115 million) from Europe’s Innovative Medicines Initiative to speed development. The U.S. drug maker earlier this month announced it had started clinical trials of its two-injection vaccine, which uses a booster from Denmark’sBavarian Nordic, making it the third such product to enter human...

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Johnson & Johnson starts Ebola Vaccine trial

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The first of 72 healthy volunteers have already received the initial dose of a drug researchers hope could put an end to the worst Ebola outbreak in the history. Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, owned byJohnson & Johnson (JNJ), is developing the ebola vaccine together with Bavarian Nordic. The company said it could begin large scale trials by May, and make 2 million vaccinations available later this year. The drug does not contain the virus...

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China approves experimental Ebola vaccine for clinical trials

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(Reuters) – China has approved a domestically developed experimental Ebola vaccine for clinical trials, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday, citing the People’s Liberation Army logistics unit. Scientists around the world are racing to develop Ebola vaccines after the world’s worst outbreak of the virus, which has killed more than 6,000 people in West Africa this year. The Chinese vaccine is being developed by the...

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