Hospital gets $30M to develop universal flu vaccine

Cincinnati Children ’s Hospital has landed a $30 million federal grant – the second-largest the medical center has ever received – to develop a universal influenza vaccine. The grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will fund research based at the hospital in Avondale, which will fo cus on how the immune systems of infants and children are affected by first exposures to flu viruses.  More than 2,000 sets of mothers and infants from Greater Cincinnati and Mexico…
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