Among the hits: a Hepatitis B vaccine, a treatment for inter-cranial aneurysms and a bovine growth hormone.
The world's first combined hepatitis A and typhoid vaccine is launched in the UK on Monday.
"But a lot of other diseases which do exist in the area are real, " he said, such as hepatitis A and other vaccine-preventable diseases.
The institute recognized two possible uses for chimps: one for cancerous tumors that are already part of ongoing investigations, and the other for a hepatitis C vaccine.
Invited to China in 1977 to talk about his great discovery, a virus that caused hepatitis, and his greater invention, a vaccine to prevent it, he would slip out in the early mornings to run for hours through fields, farmyards or the just-stirring streets of Beijing.
Biogen went on to create one of the first treatments for hepatitis C and the vaccine given for hepatitis B before becoming a dominant player in treating multiple sclerosis.
The vaccine against hepatitis B, a sexually transmitted disease, has been given to infants since 1991.
Hepatitis C has been described as an "approaching epidemic" - and unlike hepatitis A and B, there is no vaccine against it.
The vaccine provides protection for hepatitis A for patients over 15 years for a minimum of 12 months and protection against typhoid fever for up to three years.
Bharat Biotech sells a single dose of its hepatitis B vaccine for 20 cents and Bharti Airtel provides one of the cheapest wireless telephone services in the world.
Coulston, who died in 2003 at age 89, helped develop hepatitis vaccines and spent years working on a vaccine for AIDS, according to his obituary in the Los Angeles Times.
Cohen took the malaria surface protein used in Ballou's vaccine and fused it to a protein from the hepatitis B virus, creating a harmless particle that looked like a virus to the immune system.
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