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CEPI and IVI renew partnership to accelerate development of vaccines against emerging infectious disease threats

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By CEPI

September 1, 2023

1st September 2023; Oslo, Norway; Seoul, Republic of Korea: The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) today announced a renewed collaboration to accelerate the development of vaccines against emerging infectious diseases. The signing ceremony took place between Dr Jerome Kim (Director General of IVI) and Dr Richard Hatchett (CEO of CEPI) at the CEPI office in London, UK.

Under the terms of the renewed CEPI-IVI Implementing Partnership Agreement, IVI will provide technical services for CEPI-funded projects, leveraging IVI’s expertise and capabilities at their headquarters in Korea and around the world to help accelerate vaccine development against pathogens with epidemic or pandemic potential, and in support of CEPI’s 100 Days Mission, a goal to reduce the time taken to develop safe and effective vaccines against pathogens with pandemic potential to 100 days. To this end, IVI will support CEPI across a variety of projects, including providing strategic, technical and scientific support for clinical development and manufacturing of vaccines, standards and assay development, and capacity-building initiatives that strengthen local resources to help establish or improve research preparedness and emergency evidence generation for future outbreaks.

The ongoing CEPI-IVI partnership builds upon previous successful collaborations between the two organizations.

“We are delighted to reaffirm our partnership with IVI, following several years of fruitful collaboration to advance vaccine R&D for better global health. As our organisations continue to work toward the joint goal of accelerating the development of safe, effective and accessible vaccines against emerging infectious diseases, this ongoing partnership will play an important role in our work to ensure the world is better prepared to fight future outbreaks.

Dr. Richard Hatchett

Chief Executive Officer, CEPI

“Our partnership with CEPI is an exemplary model of a public-private partnership with the vision, support, and capabilities to move innovative vaccine technology from need to impact. Following years of collaboration across laboratory research, epidemiology, vaccine clinical development, and clinical research preparedness for diseases such as COVID-19, chikungunya, and MERS, we are proud and looking forward to expanding IVI’s role as an implementing partner to advance vaccines against emerging and epidemic infectious diseases.

Dr Jerome Kim

Director General of IVI

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