Advancing vaccines

TBVAC2020: Advancing Tuberculosis Vaccines from Discovery to Clinical Development

TBVAC2020 is a research project supported by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission (EC). It aims at the discovery and development of novel tuberculosis (TB) vaccines from preclinical research projects to early clinical assessment. The project builds on previous collaborations from 1998 onwards funded through the EC framework programs FP5, FP6, and FP7. It has succeeded in attracti...

Advancing regulatory science, advancing regulatory practice

In an Editorial of Science in 2011, Margaret A. Hamburg, the then Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration highlighted that a strong field of regulatory science is required to develop new tools, standards and approaches that efficiently and consistently assess the safety, efficacy and performance of products, and that this field has long been underappreciated and underfunded.1 During...

Advancing knowledge

I There have been numerous studies on risk perception. The psychometric approach, which is a factorial system using two or three elements, has been preferred. This approach is described as concerning the nature of risks, the knowledge of persons exposed to those risks and the effects to which they are exposed (Slovic, Fischhoff and Lichtenstein, 1980; Slovic, 1987). Other authors have looked at...

Women Advancing

Advancing Agendas

In the UK, the development of integrated children‟s services over the past six years has led to an increased need for public sector managers to attend strategic, interagency meetings. However, there is little research in this field that can be used to support managers in ensuring positive outcomes from such meetings. The aim of this research was to identify the main concerns of managers attendi...