A Quarter-Century of Indo-U.S. Vaccine Research Collaboration Working through informal channels 25 years ago, officials built a bilateral vaccine program that continues to support solid research in this field

摘要

Last September, American and Indian scientists met in New Delhi, India, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program (VAP). The meeting, which featured updates on VAP research projects and clinical trials, also was cause for celebration and self-congratulation for having seen the program through a difficult birth and a scientific adolescence troubled by financial uncertainties, changing research priorities, conflicting bureaucracies, and physical distance. Now at 25 years, many of the people who created the VAP, trained under it, and sustained it with collaborative funds, research, and publications have laid out plans and projects that should carry the program through another quarter century.