Thank you for visiting our website. The Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health conducts research to develop AIDS vaccines. I direct the clinical studies to test promising vaccine candidates for safety and effectiveness in healthy volunteers. By participating in these studies, you may be able to advance our search for an AIDS vaccine that will help prevent the spread of this fatal infectious disease, and also give us valuable new insights into how to create new vaccines for other diseases.

If you are interested in participating in a trial, please contact us at 1-866-833-LIFE (5433) or e-mail us at VRCforlife@mail.nih.gov to learn more about AIDS vaccines. You are also invited to browse our site where we provide information on Clinical Trials - the steps to volunteer, vaccine safeguards, and some FAQs that may interest you. We also have information on current trials at the VRC and elsewhere.

I hope that you will find our site useful and informative. Our goal is to update this site frequently with new information on our trials, our progress, and relevant information on AIDS and HIV. So, please visit us again.

Barney S. Graham, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief, Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory and Clinical Trials Core