Research Initiatives

The Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative (HHVI)

Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute is a non-profit public organization dedicated to saving lives by stimulating the development and distribution of vaccines throughout the world. The Institute is committed to continuing the work of Dr. Albert Sabin, who envisioned the enormous potential of vaccines to prevent deadly diseases. The Sabin Vaccine Institute in conjunction with MITM are currently working on a human hookworm vaccine initiative.

Children's National Medical Center (CNMC)

The mission of the Children's Research Institute is to develop and maintain medical research programs that will lead to improved understanding, treatment, and prevention of the diseases of infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

Children's Research Institute (CRI) is a free-standing research institute in Children's National Medical Center, a major academic pediatric medical center affiliated with The George Washington University in Washington, DC. CRI has basic and clinical investigators active in seven research centers, and houses facilities in seventy-five thousand square feet of space equipped with general research laboratories as well as specialty laboratories and core facilities related to clinical research.

Research at CRI aims to understand better the prevention, management, and treatment of the diseases of infancy, childhood, and adolescence. To assist physicians, nurses, and other hospital staff in the implementation of their research, CRI provides research associates, statisticians, research managers and nurses to help with study design, data collection and entry, data analysis, and the preparation of articles, abstracts, book chapters, and grant proposals.

The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)

The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) is a nonprofit research institute with interests in structural, functional, and comparative analysis of genomics and gene products in viruses, eubacteria, pathogenic bacteria, archea, and eukaryotes, including humans. TIGR is an international resource and possibly the premier center in the world for genomics research. The Institute first attained international acclaim when in 1995 TIGR scientists reported the completed sequence of the genome for the human pathogen Haemophilus influenzae. This was the first time that the entire genome of a free-living organism had been demonstrated. Later in that year, the genome of Mycoplasma genitalium was completely sequenced. Since then, TIGR has completed the sequence of a number of microbial genomes and will soon have the complete sequence of the 14 microbial genomes (including agents that cause syphilis, meningitis, cholera, tuberculosis, and lyme disease), 5 parasite genomes (including the etiologic agents of malaria, African sleeping sickness, and chagas disease), human chromosome 16, and several plant genomes. The data from TIGR's research effort is used by researchers from around the world in the quest to conquer disease and hunger.

TIGR is located in Rockville, MD, in the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area, and consists of more than 80,000-square feet of laboratory and office space located on a 12-acre campus. The Institute has a large DNA sequencing laboratory and has modern facilities for bioinformatics, biochemistry, and molecular biology.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. NIH works toward that mission by: conducting research in its own laboratories; supporting the research of non-Federal scientists in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country and abroad; helping in the training of research investigators; and fostering communication of medical information.