Dr. J. Thomas August, who has spent the last 40 years at Johns Hopkins and decades developing a way for people to fight off viruses, has turned his attention to developing a Zika virus vaccine. He is relying upon one of his own discoveries - a means of delivering cells injected with the DNA code of the virus to a person's own immune system to fight off infection. "Others talk about 10 years to invent and develop a new vaccine,” said August, “We're going to do this in about a year." August is bankrolling his new Baltimore-based company called Pharos Biologicals with his own money and has enlisted CEO David Wise to help raise as much as $5 million to conduct the initial trials.
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