Vaccine approval process also called the ‘valley of death, where bright ideas go to die’, says Steven Jones
In 2005, microbiologist Steven Jones was part of a medical team in Angola, which was in the midst of an outbreak of Marburg, Ebola’s sister virus.
The team had samples of an experimental vaccine, developed by Jones and researchers in Winnipeg to treat Ebola and Marburg, with them. But clinical tests weren’t yet complete, so they couldn’t use it on infected patients, even though preliminary research had shown it to be effective as early as 2003, Jones says.
That restriction sparked a tense confrontation with a military doctor.
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