In the Media Tag: strep vaccine


Strep A bacteria kill a half-million people a year. Why don’t we have a vaccine?

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Looking back, Otto remembers struggling to breathe when he was as young as four. Exertion would make him cough, and the coughing fits would go on and on. Growing up in a family of eight children in a village in northern Uganda, he would try to run and play with other kids. But usually he… Read More


2015 a Big Year for Memphis Health Community

The Daily News

Vaxent chief scientific officer James B. Dale, who also serves as a professor of medicine and chief of the division of infectious diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, invented the vaccine based on more than 25 years of laboratory research.


Memphis Researcher’s Strep Vaccine Moves to Trial Phase

The Daily News

Vaxent chief scientific officer James B. Dale, who also serves as a professor of medicine and chief of the division of infectious diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, invented StreptAnova based on more than 25 years of laboratory research.