NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) announced today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ragon Institute to accelerate the development of new and promising AIDS vaccine candidates for testing. Formed in February 2009, the Ragon Institute was officially established at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to help bring fresh perspectives and encourage cross-disciplinary collaborations to contribute to the discovery of an HIV/AIDS vaccine.
