Innovation in a “culture of planning”: HPV vaccines and translational research in the National Cancer Institute, Natalie B. Aviles, Colby College
Colloquium Series: This talk explores the role scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a US federal science agency, played in researching and testing vaccines for the human papillomavirus (HPV). Dr. Aviles argues that interpretations of “translational research” native to the NCI influenced these researchers’ efforts to design and test first- and second-generation HPV vaccines. … Read more