Project description
Vaccines against Filoviruses
Filoviruses, including Ebola virus and Marburg virus, are highly infectious pathogens that can cause severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans. The development of vaccines against filoviruses has been a critical focus of research due to the potential for large-scale outbreaks and the lack of effective treatments. The EU-funded FILOVAX project aims to develop preventive vaccination tools, particularly for high-risk groups like healthcare workers. The idea is to generate multivalent vaccines that cover different Filoviruses and establish a vaccine library for all known strains. Clinical data from phase I and phase II trials will pave the way for vaccine licensing and prompt implementation to effectively manage epidemic and pandemic outbreaks.
Objective
The overall objective of the proposed broadly protective Filovirus vaccine project is to leverage co-funding from the European Commission to support the development of vaccines that will protect against a range of Filoviruses. Within this viral family, Ebolaviruses and Marburgvirus are endemic to West and Central Africa and cause frequent unpredictable outbreaks of varying size and duration. These outbreaks have significant health and societal impacts on populations in the endemic regions. In order to better prepare for future outbreaks of Zaire ebolavirus and other Filoviruses, it is necessary to develop tools to preventively vaccinate at-risk populations, such as health-care workers, in endemic regions. The impact of such preventive vaccinations would be greatest if the vaccines protected against a broad range of Filoviruses that emerge in those regions.
This project therefore aims to support the development of broadly protective Filovirus vaccines for preventive use. This will be achieved through two focussed areas of work, the first being the development of multivalent vaccines composed of single valencies covering different Filoviruses, and secondly the development of a vaccine library comprised of all known Filoviruses. The output of the work under this project will be multivalent vaccines with phase II clinical data to support a pathway to licensure, and individual exemplar candidates from a vaccine library with phase I clinical data. This co-funded grant application seeks to leverage 35m from Horizon Europe, which will be supplemented with 15m from CEPI making a total pool of 50m. Awards to support the project aims will be administered and managed by the CEPI secretariat, and the total project duration will be 66 months. This project builds on the existing partnership between the CEPI and the European Union which seeks to accelerate vaccine development for priority pathogens causing epidemic and pandemic threats collaboratively and effectively.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
You need to log in or register to use this function
We are sorry... an unexpected error occurred during execution.
You need to be authenticated. Your session might have expired.
Thank you for your feedback. You will soon receive an email to confirm the submission. If you have selected to be notified about the reporting status, you will also be contacted when the reporting status will change.
Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
-
HORIZON.2.1 - Health
MAIN PROGRAMME
See all projects funded under this programme -
HORIZON.2.1.5 - Tools, Technologies and Digital Solutions for Health and Care, including personalised medicine
See all projects funded under this programme -
HORIZON.2.1.4 - Infectious Diseases, including poverty-related and neglected diseases
See all projects funded under this programme
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-COFUND - HORIZON Programme Cofund Actions
See all projects funded under this funding scheme
Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) HORIZON-HLTH-2023-CEPI-11-IBA
See all projects funded under this callCoordinator
Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
0277 Oslo
Norway
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.