STEVE RINGMAN AND TIFFANY CAMPBELL / THE SEATTLE TIMES

Interview with Ripley Ballou

Ripley Ballou is a former U.S. Army researcher who helped develop the malaria vaccine being tested in Africa. He's now vice president for clinical research and development at GlaxoSmithKline, which produces the vaccine.

Seattle Times reporter Sandi Doughton spoke with Ballou at his office at GlaxoSmithKline's vaccine division in Rixensart, Belgium, where he described testing a vaccine on himself as part of a clinical trial in 1986.

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