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Memphis-Based US Biologic Receives Funding to Develop Orally Administered Flu Vaccine

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(Mentions UTHSC) A Memphis-based biotech company announced in early August a partnership with a federal agency to work on a temperature stable, oral vaccine against two strains of the influenza virus.


St. Jude wins $130 million contract to improve flu vaccine

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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has won a national contract to create a flu vaccine that will be as effective for people with underlying conditions, including obesity, as the healthy. “It’s going to be a challenge,” said Dr. Chasity Shelton, assistant dean in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Pharmacy. “The researchers… Read More