Supplement: Creative Collaboration
Creative Collaboration By Clare Kittredge Teaming up to move science forward. RELATED ARTICLES Successful Strategies Margaret Foti: Devoted to cancer research The Launch and the Exit Entrepreneurs Boldly Break New Ground Mark Tykocinski: Open doors lead a scientist to his calling Shire Pharmaceuticals: A Study in Exponential Growth Many Happy Returns: Cephalon celebrates its 20th year THE CHOP - WISTAR INSTITUTE - MERCK PARTNERSHIP In 1
Jan 1, 2008
Creative Collaboration
Teaming up to move science forward.
THE CHOP - WISTAR INSTITUTE - MERCK PARTNERSHIP
In 1991, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Wistar Institute teamed up with Merck to develop a rotavirus vaccine to combat the illness that affects thousands of children every year. This partnership of an international pioneer in pediatric medicine, an independent biomedical research institute, and a giant pharmaceutical company produced the oral vaccine RotaTeq. Since its approval in February 2006, about 8 million doses have been distributed worldwide, immunizing an estimated three to five million children.
Rotavirus causes fever, vomiting, and diarrhea, and affects...
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