http://www.biohouston.org BioHouston Release RSS feed. . Copyright 2005, BioHouston Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@biohouston.org Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:00:33 GMT Release http://www.biohouston.org/en/rel/415/ The Texas A&M University System and a Texas company have been awarded a $40 million U.S. Department of Defense grant to develop vaccines made from tobacco, a hoped-for improvement on the antiquated egg-based technology that made the response to last year's swine flu outbreak so slow. The so-called Texas Plant-Expressed Vaccine Consortium announced the manufacturing initiative Wednesday. It will be headquartered in a 145,000-square-foot facility to be built on 21 acres at the Texas A&M Health Science Center in Bryan. “If this works, we'll have a billion-dose-per-month vaccine facility in Texas, which would be by far the largest and most capable center in the world,” said Brett Giroir, vice chancellor for research for the A&M System and co-principal investigator for the project. “It would have staggering economic implications for the state of Texas, as well as overwhelming health implications for the nation and world.” Giroir said the consortium hopes to have... http://www.biohouston.org/en/rel/415/ noemail@biohouston.org Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:45:00 GMT