Throughout history vaccines have saved more lives than almost any other intervention. "Vaccines are one of humanity’s great achievements in terms of having furthered the lifespan and life quality for humanity in the past 50 years" explains Aurélia Nguyen, former Chief Program Officer at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and CEPI's new Deputy CEO in a new article out in Scientific American outlining the impact of vaccines and vaccination. And they are essential to achieving health equity around the world. “Vaccines level the playing field in terms of who gets these diseases and who doesn’t" says Nicole Lurie, CEPI's Executive Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response. Discover more as journalist Tara Haelle delves into the role and impact of vaccines over the past fifty years👇
CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations)
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We want to stop future epidemics by developing new vaccines for a safer world.
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CEPI is an innovative partnership between public, private, philanthropic, and civil organisations, launched at Davos in 2017, to develop vaccines against future epidemics. Prior to COVID-19, CEPI’s work focused on developing vaccines against the Ebola Virus Disease, Lassa virus, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, Nipah virus, Rift Valley Fever virus and Chikungunya virus. It has over 20 vaccine candidates against these pathogens in development. CEPI has also invested in new platform technologies for rapid vaccine development against unknown pathogens (Disease X). During the COVID-19 pandemic, CEPI initiated multiple programmes to develop vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants with a focus on speed, scale, and access. These programmes leverage the rapid response platforms developed by CEPI’s partners prior to the emergence of COVID-19, as well as new collaborations. The aim is to advance clinical development of a diverse portfolio of safe and effective COVID-19 candidates and to enable fair allocation of these vaccines worldwide through COVAX. CEPI’s 5-year plan lays out a $3.5 billion roadmap to compress vaccine development timelines to 100 days, develop a broadly protective vaccine against COVID-19 and other Betacoronaviruses, and create a “library” of vaccine candidates for use against known and unknown pathogens. The plan is available at www.endpandemics.cepi.net
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Ekstern lenke til CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations)
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- Forskningstjenester
- Bedriftsstørrelse
- 51–200 ansatte
- Hovedkontor
- Oslo
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- Ideell organisasjon
- Grunnlagt
- 2017
- Spesialiteter
- Epidemic Preparedness, Vaccine Development, Vaccine, Health, Science
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Over 8 million lives. That is the number of people who might be alive today if the international community had accomplished the #100DaysMission to develop safe and effective new vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in three months. ➡️https://lnkd.in/ejxcN8db This finding is highlighted in new research conducted by modelling experts at Imperial College London’s MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, published today in The Lancet Global Health. Crucially, the researchers found that a successful #100DaysMission response to COVID-19’s emergence would have had by far its greatest impact on the lives and livelihoods of people in the Global South. In lower middle-income countries, the 100 Days Mission could have: 🦠Prevented 800 million COVID-19 infections 🏥Averted 15.7 million COVID-19 hospitalisations 🫂Saved 4.8 million lives Assessing the potential economic impact of the 100 Days Mission, the researchers estimated that the 8.3 million lives saved would represent a monetary saving of as much as $14.3 trillion based on the value of statistical life years. In addition, they estimate that productivity losses due to illness amounting to almost $1.4 trillion and $63 billion of hospitalisation costs would have been averted globally. The 100 Days Mission, spearheaded by CEPI, is a global health security plan for the world to be able to develop and make available new vaccines against a future pathogen with pandemic potential within 100 days of that pandemic threat being recognised. 100 days is around a third of the time it took the world to deliver the first safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines after SARS-CoV-2 began spreading. 🔊Press release available here – https://lnkd.in/ejxcN8db 📄Read the full study here (🔓) – https://lnkd.in/ecnixG7w 👩🔬Learn more about the 100 Days Mission – https://lnkd.in/e8ppxChU
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📣 CEPI has awarded new funding to National Research Council Canada / Conseil national de recherches Canada 🇨🇦 to support their work aiming to safely make vaccine antigens in as little as two weeks. This is around eight to twelve times faster than the time currently taken to produce antigens for protein-based vaccines. “If successful, this optimised cell line could help vaccine doses be more rapidly available for clinical trials and initial emergency use during future outbreaks” explains CEPI’s Acting Executive Director of Vaccine Manufacturing, Ingrid Kromann. ▶ https://bit.ly/4f8JHen
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A huge congratulations to David Baker, who last week was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to computational protein design, along with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for their work on the prediction of protein structures 👏👏👏https://lnkd.in/eKRYGm2q In 2003, David Baker and his research group succeeded in using computational biophysics to design novel proteins that have not been observed in nature before. Proteins are fundamental building blocks of life, and the ability to accurately predict and design new structures has enabled a wide range of applications including life-saving vaccines, such as the #COVID19 vaccine produced by SK Bioscience 👩🔬👉https://lnkd.in/eZgsUw-N The Baker lab designed new SARS-CoV-2 nanoparticles, in clinical research supported by CEPI, resulting in the first approved computationally designed vaccine.
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📢We are funding the first Phase II clinical trial of a Rift Valley fever vaccine in an endemic country - Kenya. The potentially deadly Rift Valley fever is a mosquito-borne disease affecting countries across Africa. A team of scientists at the University of Oxford the KEMRI - Wellcome Trust Research Programme will lead the $3.7m trial. A total of 240 healthy adult participants will take part in the research, following local trial approvals. Professor George Warimwe, Principal Investigator of the upcoming trial and Deputy Executive Director of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research programme, said: “Nearly 100 years after Rift Valley fever was discovered, there are still no approved vaccines or treatments against the disease. This vaccine trial brings us closer to addressing the rising frequency of outbreaks.” Read more 👉🏽https://bit.ly/4h1bkYr
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📣 We're providing new funding to the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) to expand it's Coronavirus Vaccines R&D roadmap, an important tool created to guide the development of vaccines against multiple potentially deadly coronaviruses. CEPI’s new $3.2 million investment will help set up an open-access online database of current literature and reports related to coronavirus vaccine research. The funding will also support an online dashboard tracking funding and investment within this area of research. “Having the latest information on vaccine research and progress within coronavirus vaccine R&D readily and openly available in CIDRAP’s roadmap will enhance the approach being pursued by CEPI and other scientific investigators around the world to develop vaccines that could confer protection against multiple coronaviruses at the same time” explains CEPI's Executive Director of Vaccine R&D, Kent Kester. Find out more ▶ https://bit.ly/3BRgx4P
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The first doses of Sabin Vaccine Institute's Marburg vaccine candidate were deployed on October 6 as part of a clinical trial in Rwanda to help control a deadly outbreak of the virus in the country. But what exactly is Marburg? How does it spread? Could it become a pandemic? Find the answers to these questions and more in CEPI's latest explainer ➡️ http://bit.ly/402fB7I
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📣 We've today announced new funding to The University of Sheffield for its RNAbox™, an easily adaptable and automated process designed to scale up the production mRNA vaccines at regional vaccine manufacturing sites around the world. The technology builds on the 'vaccine revolution' experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and could play a role in "helping to make high-quality, low-cost vaccines quickly and close to the source of an outbreak" explains Ingrid Kromann, CEPI's Acting Executive Director of Vaccine Manufacturing and Supply Chain. CEPI is providing up to $4.8 million to establish proof-of-concept of the technology being developed by the School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield ▶https://bit.ly/3zRdyZC
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📣CEPI and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launch search for expert epidemic modellers Infectious disease modelling is instrumental in understanding the impact that new and fast-spreading viruses could have on societies and helping to inform public health response. To make sure the world is better prepared for future infectious disease outbreaks, CEPI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are supporting a new network of infectious diseases modellers in the Global South that could provide rapid epidemic modelling to inform the response to future infectious disease threats. The partner group will be known as the Global South leaders in Epidemic Analytics and Response Network or GS LEARN. To build the network, CEPI and the Gates Foundation are first on the search for experts to offer training and mentorship activities to researchers and professionals in the Global South on epidemic and pandemic data analytics and infectious disease modelling. More information and details on how to apply are available on the CEPI website. Applications close 15 January 2025 ▶ https://bit.ly/3BxNR0B
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📣 CEPI’s CEO Richard Hatchett has been awarded the prestigious The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon from the Government of Japan 🇯🇵 The award, one of the highest national accolades awarded to individuals who have made notable contributions to society, was celebrated at a ceremony today in London, UK. His Excellency, Hajime Hayashi, Ambassador of Japan to the UK, praised Dr Hatchett for his exemplary leadership and collaboration made with Japan and the world to address recent global health challenges and help develop Japan's global health policy. 👉https://bit.ly/3NaBtX0