Researchers from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have received a pledge of $100 million to create an institute and work on an AIDS vaccine, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The financing, which runs $10 million a year for 10 years, will support the Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute, which will be housed at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
The institute carries the goal of encouraging multi-disciplinary research in hopes of discovering an AIDS vaccine.
