Serving as a complementary series to AIDS Research Reviews - edited by Drs. Wayne C. Koff, Flossie Wong-Staal, and Ronald C. Kennedy (Marcel Dekker, Inc.) - this new series reviews significant advances in immunization research and addresses scientific and public policy challenges for moving candidate vaccines from the laboratory to the population.;

Part 1 Technical advances in vaccine development: lipopeptides and their effects on the immune system - use as vaccine components, Patricia J. Freda Pietrobon and Patrick Kanda; HIV-1 virus-like particles as a source of antigen for AIDS vaccines, Anna Aldovini and Richard A. Young; chemically defined synthetic immunogens and vaccines by the multiple antigen peptide approach, James P. Tam; the use of muramyl peptides as vaccine adjuvants, Gary Ott et al. Part 2 Vaccine development - current status/future directions: contraceptive vaccine development - future prospects, Nancy J. Alexander; perspectives in recombinant pertussis toxoid development, W. Neal Burnette. Part 3 Vaccines - clinical and policy development: vaccine clinical trials, John R. La Montagne and George T. Curlin; the development of an HIV vaccine - legal and policy aspects, Robert E. Stein.