Decoding The Immune System To Speed Vaccine/Immunotherapy R&D
Executive Summary
The Human Vaccines Project, a consortium of biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions and nonprofit product developers, is aiming to conduct numerous small, focused trials in an effort to decode the human immune system to improve the way vaccines and immunotherapies are developed.
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