If you’re going to be a scientist, the big money is in vaccines
The Washington Post reported Wednesday on the $15 million dollar grant given to the University of Maryland’s Dr. Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of the HIV virus, to develop a possible HIV vaccine. The grant comes from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
At the same time, Juvaris BioTherapeutics, located in Pleasanton, reported the award of a $9 million grant over a five-year period for the purpose of researching a way to increase the effectiveness of the flu vaccine. (More.)
And then we also have the report that money from G8 countries to develop vaccines for the poor is possibly being misspent, while large pharmaceutical companies rake in profits.
So it’s not surprising that small-time “entrepreneurs” are recognizing the business potential of vaccines: seventeen men were arrested in China this week for selling fake rabies vaccines. Apparently 227 people were administered a “vaccine” consisting of starch and water.