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18/11/2016
The £120 million UK Vaccine Network fund was launched in 2015 to support the UK's role in fighting the diseases, and the Department of Health has now confirmed the first project winners. The funding is to be shared among 26 vaccine development projects.
The UK Vaccine Network brings together industry, academia and philanthropy experts including the Jenner Institute at Oxford University, the Wellcome Trust and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
Nicola Blackwood, Public Health Minister, said: "The sobering reality is that infectious diseases do not respect borders; this was made all too clear during the outbreaks of Ebola and Zika.
"Our brave UK experts led the emergency response in Sierra Leone and now we continue to lead both the fight against deadly diseases and in protecting the public.
"Last week, we announced our ability to deploy experts anywhere in the world within 48 hours of an outbreak and this week we are helping some our best scientists get potentially life-saving vaccines off the ground. The race to create new vaccines is on and I want the UK to win it."
Professor Adrian Hill, Director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University, said: "These awards support the critical early stage of vaccine design and development for diseases that could cause very serious outbreaks.
"Creating a successful vaccine takes a lot of hard work and scientific research. The best way to create a vaccine is to test a range to ensure they are safe and then introduce them to clinical trials.
"This money will support this work and bring a new exciting range of vaccine technologies to use against diseases such as Zika for the first time. These vaccine awards put the UK in a leading position in this vital and rapidly developing field."
Zika virus has been linked to microcephaly – a birth defect where children are born with abnormally small heads. Since the epidemic began in 2015, almost 5,000 cases of microcephaly have been recorded in affected regions. In February 2016, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Zika epidemic an international public health emergency.
(JP/LM)
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Zika Research To Share In £120m Vaccine Fund
Researchers in the UK are to receive funding to create new vaccines for epidemic diseases such as Zika and Ebola, it has been announced.The £120 million UK Vaccine Network fund was launched in 2015 to support the UK's role in fighting the diseases, and the Department of Health has now confirmed the first project winners. The funding is to be shared among 26 vaccine development projects.
The UK Vaccine Network brings together industry, academia and philanthropy experts including the Jenner Institute at Oxford University, the Wellcome Trust and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
Nicola Blackwood, Public Health Minister, said: "The sobering reality is that infectious diseases do not respect borders; this was made all too clear during the outbreaks of Ebola and Zika.
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"Our brave UK experts led the emergency response in Sierra Leone and now we continue to lead both the fight against deadly diseases and in protecting the public.
"Last week, we announced our ability to deploy experts anywhere in the world within 48 hours of an outbreak and this week we are helping some our best scientists get potentially life-saving vaccines off the ground. The race to create new vaccines is on and I want the UK to win it."
Professor Adrian Hill, Director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University, said: "These awards support the critical early stage of vaccine design and development for diseases that could cause very serious outbreaks.
"Creating a successful vaccine takes a lot of hard work and scientific research. The best way to create a vaccine is to test a range to ensure they are safe and then introduce them to clinical trials.
"This money will support this work and bring a new exciting range of vaccine technologies to use against diseases such as Zika for the first time. These vaccine awards put the UK in a leading position in this vital and rapidly developing field."
Zika virus has been linked to microcephaly – a birth defect where children are born with abnormally small heads. Since the epidemic began in 2015, almost 5,000 cases of microcephaly have been recorded in affected regions. In February 2016, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Zika epidemic an international public health emergency.
(JP/LM)
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