Articles by: Kate Villars

CDC Vaccine Advisers Recommend Merck’s RSV Therapy for Babies — STAT News

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Read article – Cody Meissner, MD, a professor of pediatrics at Geisel, is quoted in an article about the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) vote to recommend the use of a new monoclonal antibody against RSV in babies. The vote was the first for the new members of the committee, who were handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “These are truly remarkable products. They are safe and they are effective,” said Meissner. (Similar coverage in MedScape, CBS News, and more.)

Dartmouth Tuberculosis Vaccine Passes Important Milestone

Dartmouth Tuberculosis Vaccine Passes Important Milestone

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Investigators at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine announced that two new studies of DAR-901, their investigational vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), have moved it to the forefront of new vaccines in development for global control of this deadly infectious disease.

Dr. Andrew Pachner and Selma Bornstein celebrate the creation of the the Murray B. Bornstein Professorship, which honors her late husband. Photo credit: Jon Gilbert Fox

Pachner Named Murray B. Bornstein Professor

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Andrew R. Pachner, MD, has been named the inaugural holder of the Murray B. Bornstein Professorship, which supports a clinician in Geisel’s Department of Neurology who conducts research in progressive, disabling neurological diseases, preferably multiple sclerosis.