Lee Schoentrup2018-03-29T13:48:03+00:00March 29th, 2018|Press Releases|
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SEATTLE | March 29, 2018: The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT) has awarded the University of Florida (UF) and partners, including IDRI (Infectious Disease Research Institute), $3.2 million to advance a promising vaccine to prevent transmission [...]
Lee Schoentrup2018-03-27T10:00:56+00:00March 24th, 2018|Press Releases|
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: SEATTLE | March 24, 2018 : Researchers at IDRI (Infectious Disease Research Institute), the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Aeras have released the first results from a clinical trial [...]
Lee Schoentrup2018-03-27T09:55:45+00:00March 23rd, 2018|Press Releases|
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Seattle | March 23, 2018: IDRI’s tuberculosis drug discovery efforts continue to expand with a recently awarded grant extension of $3.8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The additional funding was awarded to Tanya [...]
Lee Schoentrup2018-03-14T15:56:19+00:00March 14th, 2018|Blog|
The world lost a tremendous advocate for global health with the passing of Dan Stinchcomb, PhD, IDRI’s Chief Scientific Officer, who died Feb. 21 after a brief illness. In a short time, he made a tremendous impact on IDRI’s work [...]
Lee Schoentrup2018-01-26T07:55:04+00:00January 26th, 2018|Blog|
As World Leprosy Day rolls around this year on Sunday, Jan. 28, we have much to be excited about from the scientific standpoint. In October, IDRI announced that our promising leprosy vaccine candidate – the first vaccine developed specifically for [...]
Lee Schoentrup2017-12-06T16:07:19+00:00December 6th, 2017|Blog|
The clock is ticking; the pressure is on. It’s time to buy holiday gifts! The question is: what are you going to get your favorite geek? As a scientific organization, IDRI is full of self-proclaimed geeks who have a few [...]
Lee Schoentrup2017-11-13T10:59:13+00:00November 13th, 2017|Blog|
Every year the World Health Organization releases its global report on tuberculosis. For the past few years, this has provided sobering reading. Tuberculosis is the biggest killer among infectious diseases, surpassing both AIDS and malaria. In 2016, there were 1.7 [...]
Lee Schoentrup2017-11-13T11:05:02+00:00November 9th, 2017|Events|
Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017 MIT Enterprise Forum Northwest 5:30-8:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017 Seattle University, Pigott Auditorium, Seattle, WA 98122 IDRI's Tanya Parish, Senior Vice President of Drug Discovery, will be a featured panelist as the MIT Enterprise Forum [...]
Lee Schoentrup2017-10-19T10:02:04+00:00October 19th, 2017|Press Releases|
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Seattle, WA | Oct. 19, 2017: Cindy Runger, a senior finance and legal executive who most recently served in a leadership role with U.S. Trust, has joined the Board of Directors of IDRI (Infectious Disease Research [...]
Lee Schoentrup2017-10-13T09:05:54+00:00October 13th, 2017|News|
