HPV vaccine
Vacuna contra el virus del papiloma humano
- Date
- 2006 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Merck (Gardasil)
- Credited to
- Ian Frazer and Jian Zhou (virus-like particles, 1991); Harald zur Hausen (HPV-cancer link; Nobel 2008)
- People
- 👤 Ian Frazer1953–
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
First vaccine designed to prevent a cancer, based on recombinant particles with no viral DNA. Countries with wide vaccination coverage are eliminating cervical cancer.
What it led to
- The elimination of cervical cancer as a WHO goal
- Virus-like particle vaccines
- Debates over adolescent vaccination
Built on
- Recombinant DNA genetic engineering1973
- recombinant hepatitis B vaccine
- cancer virology
Made possible
- elimination of cervical cancer
- virus-like particle vaccines