Project description
Long-term solutions for pandemic preparedness
Epidemics and pandemics wield staggering health and economic tolls, defining critical public policy concerns globally. The need for swift understanding, response, and vaccination against potential viral threats looms larger than ever. However, modern vaccines face a pivotal challenge in inducing enduring protective immunity, as evidenced by the rapid waning of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy. In this context, the EU-funded VICI-DISEASE will develop long-term protective immunity. Specifically, the consortium aims to tackle high-mortality viral diseases like Nipah virus (NiV). By leveraging cutting-edge expertise and advancements, VICI-DISEASE strives to create a highly effective and durable NiV vaccine within 48 months. This initiative protects against NiV and Hendra virus outbreaks. It also establishes a novel pipeline for filovirus vaccines.
Objective
The enormous health and economic impacts of epidemics and pandemics has become one of the defining public policy and health issues in Europe and throughout the world. A new urgency is required to understand, rapidly respond to, and vaccinate against viruses with epidemic and pandemic potential. The major challenge for the modern vaccines is the induction of long-term protective immunity, as clearly demonstrated by fast waning of protection for current COVID-19 vaccines. VICI-DISEASE is an ambitious project which combines existing cutting-edge expertise in a tried and tested consortium, with new advances in this critical field. The consortium’s main objective is to develop a vaccine candidate portfolio and perform a clinical proof-of-concept study, to enable stocks of vaccine candidates ready for further development (Phase 2&3) in case of pandemic outbreaks. The primary candidate will be Nipah virus (NiV), a high-mortality viral disease with no vaccines or treatments. Our vaccine is based on NiV G protein displayed on capsid Virus Like Particle (cVLP), enabled by adapting template processes from our recent COVID-19 vaccine (currently in Phase 3), and expected to provide best-in-class longevity as shown for COVID-19.
The VICI-DISEASE consortium’s objective is to develop and perform a clinical proof-of-concept study for
• a highly effective (>90% protection),
• long-term protective (>2 years),
• NiV virus cVLP vaccine,
• by adapting template processes established for our COVID-19 vaccine (currently in Phase 3),
• within 48 months in a Phase 1/2a clinical study,
• to help protect medical workers and the public from future NiV and Hendra virus outbreaks,
• and establish a pipeline of novel filovirus vaccines through pre-clinical proof-of-concept studies.
We address the call topic by improving pandemic preparedness and response through development of a NiV vaccine to Ph1/2 and two filovirus vaccines to pre-clinical proof-of-concept.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologyvirology
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologypandemics
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesproteins
- medical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacypharmaceutical drugsvaccines
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinator
1165 Kobenhavn
Denmark