April 30, 2014 The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) and Novavax, Inc. today announced that an investigational vaccine candidate developed by Novavax against the recently emerged Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) blocked infection in laboratory studies. UM SOM and Novavax also reported that a vaccine candidate against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) developed by Novavax …
30 Years of HIV: but who made the discovery?
It has been 30 years to the day since Dr Robert Gallo, MD and colleagues from the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland announced at a press conference that they had discovered the cause of AIDS: HIV Gallo’s announcement 30 years ago came at a trying time across the world as the only recently described AIDS was …