New consortium to advance first-ever clinical testing of human hookworm vaccine in Gabon

(Sabin Vaccine Institute) The HOOKVAC consortium, led by the Academic Medical Center, has been awarded a grant of six million Euros from the European Commission FP7 programme to expand the Sabin Vaccine Institute Product Development Partnership's work to develop and test a vaccine for human hookworm, which infects 600-700 million of the world's poorest people. Under this grant, the HOOKVAC consortium will begin the first clinical testing of the human hookworm vaccine in Gabon.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news