Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation

The Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation was an American non-profit product development organization based in Rockville, Maryland.

Aeras worked to develop vaccines against tuberculosis with a number of partners including adenoviral vector vaccines with Crucell (now known as Janssen) and second-generation fusion-protein vaccines with Statens Serum Institut.

History

Aeras was founded in 1997 to “help develop new concepts and tools to control the global TB epidemic.”1)

In February 2004, Aeras received a 5-year US$82.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Aeras and the Gates Foundation co-funded an “infant and adolescent TB Vaccine Site preparation study” alongside the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCCTP) at the Infectious Diseases Institute in Uganda.2)

Organization

Aeras was partnered with the Medicines for Malaria Venture to develop antimicrobial products.3)

Personnel

Funding

Network

1)
About Aeras. Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation. Retrieved December 7, 2006, from https://web.archive.org/web/20061207055538/http://www.aeras.org/about/index.html
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Other product development partnerships (PDPs). Medicines for Malaria Venture. Retrieved July 17, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220717220929/https://www.mmv.org/other-product-development-partnerships-pdps
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Jerald C. Sadoff, MD. Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation. Retrieved December 6, 2006, from https://web.archive.org/web/20061206103418/http://www.aeras.org/about/staff/sadoff/index.html
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Animal Models Technical Advisory Group. Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation. Retrieved February 10, 2005, from http://archive.today/2005.02.10-180145/http://aeras.org/about/sag/amtag/index.html
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Research in Human Subjects Review Committee (Institutional Review Board). Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation. Retrieved February 10, 2005, from http://archive.today/2005.02.10-175557/http://aeras.org/about/sag/irb/index.html
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Funders and Partners. Aeras. Retrieved July 24, 2018, from http://archive.today/2018.07.24-024017/http://www.aeras.org/pages/funders
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Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation - Rockville, USA. Bionity. Retrieved May 12, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.05.12-171636/https://www.bionity.com/en/associations/20656/aeras-global-tb-vaccine-foundation.html
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