Florian Krammer is a professor in the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the mount sinai professor in vaccinology. He is also the co-director of the Center ...

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Before the Covid-19 pandemic, little was done beyond flu shots to counter the seasonal respiratory virus infections that circulate among the general public in a typical year — such as influenza ...

On January 10, as soon as the genetic sequence was posted for the new coronavirus then rampaging through China—it didn’t even have the name SARS-CoV-2 yet—Florian Krammer and his lab went to work.

Results from a phase one trial indicate that that it may be possible to immunize people against all strains of influenza, scientists say. A strong immune response in the universal flu vaccine was ...

Diverse antibodies induced in humans by vaccination with an avian influenza virus vaccine may offer broader, more durable protection against multiple strains of influenza than today's vaccines ...

With avian influenza spreading quickly around the globe, the virus has more opportunities to mutate and cause problems for people. By some calculations, H5N1 bird flu is still at least two mutations ...

I was concerned about COVID-19 on December 31, when I heard for the first time that there was an outbreak. With the release of the genetic sequence on January 10, it was pretty clear to me that this ...

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Each year when influenza season arrives, experts worry that the flu vaccine won’t match the currently circulating strains of the virus. The results of an early-stage trial suggest that may become a ...

NEW YORK – Peter Palese pulls open the door of a 16th floor lab room at Mount Sinai's Upper East Side hospital. Inside the unusually warm room, lie stacked sheets of chicken eggs, delivered fresh ...