Hello geri1234,
Thank you for your question.
I searched ["experimental HIV Vaccine" +"san francisco"] to find the
following:
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jan98/niaid-14.htm
"All six AVEG sites are participating in this study. Mary Lou
Clements-Mann, M.D., M.P.H., of Johns Hopkins University, is the study
chair. Both vaccines used in this study are manufactured by VaxGen of
South San Francisco, Calif."
Searching for vaxgen, I located this press release:
http://www.vaxgen.com/pressroom/index.html
"VaxGen Forms Joint Venture to Build Manufacturing Facilities In
California and South Korea; Facilities Designed to Support Potential
Regulatory Approval and Commercial Manufacture of VaxGen's AIDS
Vaccine
VaxGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: VXGN) and a group of South Korean investors
today announced the formation of a joint venture, which will invest
approximately $120 million to build and operate a facility in Incheon,
South Korea, to manufacture VaxGen's AIDS vaccine. The joint venture,
through the same $120 million investment, will also fund construction
of a smaller facility in South San Francisco, Calif., to support
licensure and commercial launch of the vaccine. Both facilities will
be used for commercial manufacture of the vaccine, AIDSVAX, if it
proves safe and effective and is licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration...
...In its first phase of development, the Incheon facility is expected
to be capable of producing up to 200 million doses of AIDSVAX per
year. The smaller facility in South San Francisco could produce up to
10 million doses of the AIDS vaccine per year and may also be used to
develop other pharmaceutical products. Celltrion expects to complete
construction of the smaller facility by the middle of 2003 and the
Incheon facility by the end of 2003. Additional time will be required
to validate and license each facility."
You will find contact information for VaxGen on their pages at
www.vaxgen.com .
I trust my research has located the information you desire. If a link
above should fail to work or anything require further explanation,
please do post a Request for Clarification and I will be pleased to
assist further.
Regards,
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