Objective
Annual influenza epidemic and pandemic outbreaks of influenza cause a significant disease burden and mortality in man and have high economical impact in the EU. The major drawbacks of influenza vaccines are their limited efficacy and production methods that are hard to adapt to requirements of continuously changing influenza viruses. We aim to improve the efficacy and production methods of epidemic and pandemic influenza vaccines through
1) Improving epidemic vaccine strain selection based on retrospective and prospective analyses.
2) Improving vaccine strain selection and reference reagents for pandemic influenza.
3) Implementation of reverse genetics technologies to increase flexibility and yield of influenza vaccines.
4) Use of a cell substrate for vaccine production.
5) Use of novel antigen delivery systems.
6) Detailed examination of correlates of protection. Promising strategies will be tested in appropriate animal models.
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.
- social sciences sociology demography mortality
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology virology
- medical and health sciences health sciences public health epidemiology pandemics
- medical and health sciences health sciences infectious diseases RNA viruses influenza
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy pharmaceutical drugs vaccines
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Coordinator
3015 GE ROTTERDAM
Netherlands
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