2007 Health Award Laureate
Vaxin Inc., Rapid-Response Bird Flu Vaccine
| Laureate Country: United States |
| Project Country: U.S. |
| Website: http://www.vaxin.com |
| Video: 2007Videos/vaxin.mov |
Vaxin harnesses technology to create rapid-response vaccines that protect people and chickens from bird flu.
New strains of bird flu constantly emerge, threatening to infect humans. World health experts fear that one of them will create the next pandemic.
Vaxin invented a new system to quickly generate emergency vaccines. The process takes place in more efficient cell cultures, and it can quickly produce large amounts of vaccines that can be administered to birds before they hatch, and to people through painless nasal spray. The system will be crucial to saving lives worldwide in the case of a bird flu outbreak.
