Dr. Hooper On KYW Newsradio About NIH Grant to Study New Rabies Vaccine
A team of researchers at Jefferson, led by D. Craig Hooper, director of the Center for Neurovirology, was awarded a $4.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to test a new rabies vaccine with the potential to cure the virus infection, even after it has made its way into a person's central nervous system (CNS).
This vaccine research could also help doctors working on treatments of glioblastoma, a primary malignant tumor of the brain, explained Dr. Hooper in a KYW Newsradio interview.
Read the full "Thomas Jefferson University Researcher Awarded $4.8 Million To Study New Rabies Vaccine" interview online.
This interview was also picked up by several other outlets, including Philadelphia Business Journal, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Publication: KYW Newsradio
Published: 8/14/2011