Kudos to Dr. Malone, DTRA, USAMRIID, PHAC, and Many Others
It is rare that I have the privilege to witness, on the ground floor, a major global public health event. And even rarer to give public kudos to one of the silent heroes among a huge group of heroes who contributed to the process. I am proud to present Dr. Robert Malone's heroic contribution to the Ebola fight:
RW Malone MD is proud to have played a key role in enabling the enormous success of developing an effective Ebola vaccine within 12 months. August 2014, colleagues at the Department of Defense/Defense Threat Reduction Agency asked us to step in and help NewLink manage the project and develop the contracts necessary to move the "orphan" PHAC/rVSV ZEBOV vaccine forward quickly. We got the project on track, recruited our client, Focus Diagnostic Clinical Trials (FCT), to team with USAMRIID/WRAIR to develop and perform the immunoassays, put WHO leadership in touch with Pentagon leadership to expedite the initial WRAIR clinical trials, recruited the government of Norway to help fund the clinical research, used social media (LinkedIn) and then personal phone calls to recruit Merck Vaccines to join the project, recruited a management team, and lead the development of the BARDA and DTRA contracts - yielding over 200M$ in resources. Those were frightening times, but now we have a remarkably effective vaccine, developed in record time. The US Army Medical Corps, Medical Countermeasure Systems (MCS) and the DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) took risks and got the job done, on time and on budget, with little fanfare, and we were grateful to have been able to serve and assist with this huge accomplishment.
While the above sounds like a promotion for Robert's consulting service, I am here to publicly say I watched him do this first-hand. I want to also heartily acknowledge and congratulate DTRA, USAMRIID, and especially our colleagues in Canada's PHAC. You all have done a terrific job here. WELL DONE.
Aids-TB Specialist /Project Coordinator/Legal Consultant.
8yYou are special Dr.Jim and let"s me admire your courage to congratulate Dr.Malone for the endeavors and the success that Change or bring a new chapter in history medicine.thank you my senior where I am in Haiti we do not have lab for research but I never stop to following your steps.God bless you ! Dr.nixon Belizaire belizairenixon@gmail.com
Manager at MOM's Organic Market
8yAbsolutely astonishing work! Well done!!