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« Today's Globe: ex-McLean chief, meningitis death, low fat and ovarian cancer, migraine pill and alcoholics, Israeli doctors and Iraqi patients | Main | Short White Coat: A Jell-O mold of the brain » Wednesday, October 10, 2007WSJ blog: Harvard scientist devises way to bring vaccines to the poor, via China
Mekalanos struck a deal with Gerald Chan, a venture capitalist who is opening a vaccine factory on a tropical island called Hainan, one of the regions China has targeted for foreign investment, the blog says. Harvard will license Mekalanos’s method to Chan’s Morningside Group. The result will be a company with scientists working in Boston and on Hainan to develop a commercial vaccine. The deal allows Harvard to license any vaccines the company creates to governments and humanitarian groups in the developing world, Isaac Kohlberg, the chief of Harvard’s technology development office, told the WSJ blog. Morningside would be able to sell the vaccine in the developed world. Posted by Elizabeth Cooney at 08:51 AM
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Harvard scientist John Mekalanos (left) came up with a way to make vaccines much more cheaply, but to actually produce them, he had to fly to China, the 
