{"id":1328,"date":"2010-10-05T15:47:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T19:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2010-10-05T15:47:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T19:47:40","slug":"nih-awards-1-8-million-in-small-business-grants-for-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"NIH Awards $1.8 Million in Small Business Grants for Vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Vaccination_USACE_200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-243\" title=\"Vaccination_USACE_200\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Vaccination_USACE_200.jpg\" alt=\"Vaccination (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)\" width=\"199\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Vaccination_USACE_200.jpg 199w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Vaccination_USACE_200-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altravax.com\/\">Altravax Inc.<\/a> in Fargo, North Dakota received two grants from National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on vaccines for HIV-1. A third NIH grant supports the company&#8217;s work on vaccines for an influenza virus. All three grants, valued at $1.8 million, are awarded under NIH&#8217;s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the SBIR grants totaling $1.2 million were awarded by NIH&#8217;s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research on antibody-inducing vaccines for HIV-1. Altravax says it will use its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altravax.com\/?page_id=40\">MolecularBreeding technology<\/a> to create vaccines that provide protection against the various strains of HIV-1. The existence of a large number of virus strains and the changing nature of the virus is one of the major challenges facing the development of vaccines for HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>Altravax also received a third NIH SBIR grant for $600,000 to support its research on vaccines that provide protection against the two influenza B virus strains that co-circulate each flu season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altravax Inc. in Fargo, North Dakota received two grants from National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on vaccines for HIV-1. A third NIH grant supports the company&#8217;s work on vaccines for an influenza virus. All three grants, valued at $1.8 million, are awarded under NIH&#8217;s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Two of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,54,39,27],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","tag-grant","tag-hiv","tag-nih","tag-pharmaceuticals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}