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What are vaccines?
Vaccines are immunizations that generally come in the form of shots, and help our bodies to defend against a number of infectious diseases. Vaccines typically contain a killed or much weakened virus or protein that stimulates our body to produce antibodies against a specific disease.
How many vaccines are there?
Currently, there are 27 licensed vaccines in the U.S. to help prevent diseases like tetanus, polio, influenza, measles, mumps, hepatitis and HPV/cervical cancer.
Can a vaccine cause the disease it is supposed to prevent?
Most of our current vaccines are inactivated (killed), so that they cannot cause disease. A few vaccines use weakened or attenuated viruses, so they could theoretically cause disease, but generally do not.
What kinds of vaccines need to be studied?
There are several vaccines in development for treating diseases like bird flu, anthrax, tuberculosis and malaria. The hope is to find a bird flu vaccine that doesn’t depend on chicken embryos for its manufacturing, so that hundreds of millions of doses could be quickly produced in the event of a global outbreak of bird flu. We call our volunteers “everyday heroes” because they help to come up with solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems, such as the threat of pandemic bird flu.
Vaccine Studies in Rochester, NY
Rochester Clinical Research is currently seeking participants who are 18-64 years old for a combination Flu and COVID vaccine study. The study is approximately 6 months long and includes 3-4 visits to the office. Compensation will be provided for your participation in this study.
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Rochester Clinical Research is currently seeking participants who are 18 years or older for an investigational mRNA flu vaccine research study. The study is approximately 6 months long and includes 4 visits to the office along with 3 telephone calls. You will be compensated $100 per office visit and $50 per phone call if you qualify.
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Rochester Clinical Research is currently seeking participants who are 50 years or older for an investigational Covid-19/Influenza (Flu) vaccine study. The study is approximately 6 months long and includes 2-3 visits to our office along with 2-3 telephone calls. You will be reimbursed for trial related time.
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Rochester Clinical Research is currently seeking volunteers who are 65 years or older, who have not had a flu shot in the last 6 months, for an mRNA multivalent influenza vaccine study. The study could last up to 6 months and includes up to 5 visits to our office. If you qualify, compensation is available for your time and travel.
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Rochester Clinical Research is currently seeking participants who are between the ages of 18-60 years old for an HSV-2 genital herpes vaccine study. This study is approximately 15 months long and includes 10 office visits and 12 telephone calls. To qualify for this study, you must have had a diagnosis of genital herpes for at least 1 year. Compensation for your trial-related time is available.
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Rochester Clinical Research is currently seeking participants between the ages of 18 to 49 and 60 to 80 years old for a norovirus vaccine study. The study is approximately 14 months long and includes 11 office visits and 8 telephone calls. Compensation for this study is $125 per office visit and $25 per phone call completed.
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Rochester Clinical Research is currently enrolling children between the ages of 2-17 years old for a pediatric RSV vaccine study. The study is approximately 6 months long and will include 2 visits to our office and 2 phone calls. Compensation of $125 per office visit and $60 per phone visit is available for trial-related time.
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Rochester Clinical Research is seeking volunteers between the ages of 60-85 years old for an investigational RSV and human metapneumovirus vaccine study. The study could last approximately 12 months long and include 7 visits to our office along with 5 telephone calls. During this study, you will be compensated for your participation up to $200 per office visit and $50 per phone call.
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Rochester Clinical Research is seeking participants between the ages of 18-70 years old for an adult Lyme Disease vaccine study. The study is approximately 19 months long and will include 12-14 visits to our office during that time. There is a 12.5% chance of a placebo in this study. Compensation for your trial-related time will be provided.
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Rochester Clinical Research is currently seeking participants who are 50 years or older for a Pneumococcal vaccine research study. The length of the study is 6 months long and it includes approximately 3-4 visits to the office and 6 telephone calls. To qualify, you can’t have had a previous pneumococcal vaccine. For your participation, you will be compensated for your trial related time.
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Rochester Clinical Research is currently seeking volunteers between the ages of 18-50 years old, who have not had a flu shot in the last 6 months, for an mRNA multivalent influenza vaccine study. The study could last up to 7 months and includes up to 6 visits to our office and 2 phone/virtual contacts. If you qualify, compensation is available for your time and travel.
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Rochester Clinical Research is looking for participants 12 -17 years old for a Covid-19 booster study. This study is approximately 12 months long and includes 5 visits to our office along with 3 telephone calls. Compensation is available if you qualify to participate.
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Rochester Clinical Research is currently seeking healthy volunteers between the ages of 18-55 years old to participate in an mRNA vaccine study to help potentially prevent the Epstein-Barr Virus. The study is 13 months long and includes 11 visits to our office. Compensation is available for your time and travels to participate.
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Rochester Clinical Research is currently looking for individuals to join a vaccine study for the varicella-zoster virus. Varicella is a herpesvirus that can cause chickenpox and shingles infections. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of an mRNA vaccine against the virus. RCR is seeking participants between the ages of 50-69 years old who have not previously received a shingles vaccine. This study could last between 8-12 months to 5 years long and includes at least 10-15 office visits. Reimbursement to participate is available for up to $128 per office visit and $5 for every diary entry completed.
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Rochester Clinical Research is currently seeking volunteers between the ages of 9-15 years old to participate in a preventative CMV vaccine study. The purpose of this study is to vaccinate children against the virus to prevent them from spreading it to adults, especially women that may be planning on becoming pregnant in the foreseeable future. The study is approximately 18 months long and includes 12 visits in total.
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There is currently no vaccine to prevent or protect against Lyme. RCR is currently conducting a vaccine study to help prevent Lyme disease from infecting adolescents between the ages of 5 to 17. This study will last approximately 24 months with 6 visits to our RCR office and 2 telephone calls.
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Rochester Clinical Research is currently seeking born-female volunteers who are 16 or 17 years old to participate in a CMV vaccine study. The purpose of this study is to find a safe and effective vaccine against Cytomegalovirus.
View Trial Details For more information on vaccines:
Mayo Clinic: Top 5 Myths about Vaccines
WebMD: Immunizations
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