Objective
Recombinant viral vectors and virus-like particles are considered the most promising vehicles to deliver antigens in prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines against infectious diseases and cancer. Several potential vaccine designs exist but their cost-effective development cruelly lacks a standardised evaluation system. On these grounds, COMPUVAC is devoted to (i) rational development of a novel platform of genetic vaccines and (ii) standardisation of vaccine evaluation. COMPUVAC assembles a platform of viral vectors and virus-like particles that are among today's most promising vaccine candidates and that are backed up by the consortium's complementary expertise and intellectual property, including SMEs focusing on vaccine development. COMPUVAC recognises the lack of uniform means for side-by-side qualitative and quantitative vaccine evaluation and will thus standardise the evaluation of vaccine efficacy and safety by using "gold standard" tools, molecular and cellular methods in virology and immunology, and algorithms based on genomic and proteomic information. "Gold standard" algorithms for intelligent interpretation of vaccine efficacy and safety will be built into COMPUVAC's interactive Genetic Vaccine Decision Support System, which should generate (i) vector classification according to induced immune response quality, accounting for gender and age, (ii) vector combination counsel for prime-boost immunisations, and (iii) vector safety profile according to genomic analysis. The knowledge assembled from these studies will be applied to the development of vaccines against Hepatitis C Virus. As end products, our vector platform and "gold standard" tools, methods and algorithms will be available to the scientific and industrial communities as a toolbox and interactive database which standardised nature should contribute to cost-effective development of novel vaccines with validated efficacy and safety profile.
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. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology immunisation
- medical and health sciences health sciences infectious diseases RNA viruses hepatitis C
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy pharmaceutical drugs vaccines
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
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Keywords
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Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2003-LIFESCIHEALTH-I
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Funding Scheme
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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.
Coordinator
PARIS
France
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