Building better vaccines is the mission of a Stanford University research unit, which now has the help of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Stanford Human Systems Immunology Center will receive $50 million over 10 years to produce vaccines that also make the most out of the human body's natural disease-fighting abilities.
With the funding on hand, head researcher Mark Davis, a professor of microbiology and immunology, and his team will "learn more about the immune system and the best ways for vaccines to harness the body's arm for fighting off viruses and other invaders," according to the San Francisco Business Times.
Key diseases like HIV and Ebola, both of which are caused by viruses, have stumped medical researchers, the newspaper noted.
Davis says that a "new generation of vaccines" may yet hold promise for solving these problems.
