Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death globally, killing more than 16 million people worldwide each year. In 2000, HIV is the leader in the line-up.
Tuberculosis runs a close second and malaria is third.
SBRI is working on these top three killers, as well as other diseases of global importance. For the past 20 years, much of the Western world has believed that modern medicine was successfully controlling infectious diseases. Diagnostic tests, vaccines, and drugs are all developed from basic research findings. SBRI s research program is targeted to the major infectious global killers and how the host immune system responds.