WASHINGTON — With a call for proposals on Tuesday, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations aims to shorten the usually long time it takes to develop vaccines for emerging diseases.
This call, open to a range of companies, foundations and research and development institutions, asks for ideas for “new approaches to vaccine development” that will “support the development of rapid response platforms for vaccine development, a core part of CEPI’s mission,” Richard Hatchett, the CEO of CEPI told Devex.
CEPI is a partnership founded by the governments of India and Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and the World Economic Forum that was founded in 2016.